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Liberals to move ‘quickly’ after Alberta chops carbon pricing, says McKenna

In a wide-ranging interview, the environment minister also says she hopes Japan will respond to outreach efforts and sign on to the Ocean Plastics Charter at this month’s G20 summit.

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BY AIDAN CHAMANDY
June 5, 2019

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The cupboards may be bare, but political rhetoric is rich and frothy

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It isn’t that our political leaders’ concern about rising food costs isn’t genuine. It is that most lack the daring, or the sense of urgency—perhaps because they, themselves, are handsomely compensated—to move from Band-Aids, and accusations, to substantial social change.

The cupboards may be bare, but political rhetoric is rich and frothy

OpinionBY SUSAN RILEY

It isn’t that our political leaders’ concern about rising food costs isn’t genuine. It is that most lack the daring, or the sense of urgency—perhaps because they, themselves, are handsomely compensated—to move from Band-Aids, and accusations, to substantial social change.

Liberals to move ‘quickly’ after Alberta chops carbon pricing, says McKenna

In a wide-ranging interview, the environment minister also says she hopes Japan will respond to outreach efforts and sign on to the Ocean Plastics Charter at this month’s G20 summit.

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