Opinion
Green recovery could be polarizing issue among Canadians
By Monica Gattinger and Brendan Frank July 27, 2020
Policies that appear to favour one region over another or measures that don’t pay close attention to trade-offs with priorities beyond the climate, could face stiff resistance.
Climate change is still on the minds of many—but not all—Canadians, and over one-third of Canadians have very strong views on the subject, according to a recent poll.
The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia
For six months, the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has superseded all other public policy priorities. Governments placed their economies in a state of suspended animation, buttressed their health care systems, and pushed trillions out the door to help citizens weather the storm. But other policy problems are not going away. Indeed, COVID-19 has exposed and deepened many cracks in the system. As countries reopen, governments and multilateral institutions are grappling with what comes next, and how to reverse what the IMF estimates will be a five per cent contraction of the global economy in 2020.
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