Use biotech to spur a real energy transition
While federal action on climate change has been slow and stilted, many provinces understand that we need to turn towards renewable energy sources. They are taking bold steps to create ways of life that better respect the environment and are fairer for future generations. This August, our party’s leader, Jagmeet Singh, toured Quebec to meet […]
Environmental law reform is precisely what industry needs now
In the wake of the Federal Court of Appeal’s Aug. 30 decision overturning the approval of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, one fact is clear: Canada’s system for reviewing new industrial projects is not working for anyone. Regardless of what you think of the Trans Mountain project, no one wins when projects spend years in […]
Climate at the crossroads
It began and ended with two new cabinets and two new words: climate change. They were added to the title of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s first minister of the environment and climate change in 2015; and taken away from the new title for Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s first minister of the environment, conservation and parks […]
Environmental assessments, national security among hot topics on Senate agenda this fall
With the country’s environmental assessment process recently knocked by the courts, the government’s legislation to overhaul how impacts of major resource development projects are measured will be subject to intense scrutiny this fall as it makes its way through the Upper Chamber. Bill C-69, the Liberals’ wide-ranging environment legislation that would put in place a […]
Liberals have failed to provide leadership on importance of climate action and necessity of carbon pricing
TORONTO—As a high school student, I could hardly wait for the next edition of Mad Magazine, with its smiling and eternally optimistic face of cover boy Alfred E. Neuman asking, “What—me worry?” These days, when I see the smiling face of Conservative leader Andrew Scheer, or Ontario Premier Doug Ford, dismissing efforts to slow climate […]
Environment minister’s COP23 delegation victims of $30,000 hotel lobby theft, documents show
The social media team that tailed Environment Minister Catherine McKenna to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Germany in November 2017 were victims of a hotel lobby theft involving $30,000 in camera and electronic equipment. According to documents and emails obtained by The Hill Times through an access to information request, a thief made […]
It was Trudeau’s bad week, but we may all pay for it
OTTAWA—Let me partially join the pile-on. Yes, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had a bad week last week. Having United States President Donald Trump push Canada’s back, at least in public, against the wall on NAFTA negotiations, as well as the Federal Court of Appeal’s decision on delaying the construction of the Trans Mountain pipeline, were […]
Whither—or is it wither?—the NDP
CHELSEA, QUE.—Federal leader Jagmeet Singh isn’t the only New Democrat facing a daunting uphill climb this fall: trying to win a seat, losing veteran MPs to retirement, stumbling into unnecessary controversies. The entire party, federal and provincial, is a mess of contradictory policies, clashing priorities, tired or tentative standard-bearers, and few obvious signs of enthusiasm […]
Pipeline politics won’t help Scheer in Quebec
OTTAWA—It is not a Maxime Bernier-led breakaway party that stands to most damage Conservative prospects in Quebec in next year’s federal election, but rather some of leader Andrew Scheer’s own promises. In a keynote speech to his party’s national convention on Friday, Scheer laid out part of his 2019 battle plan. As expected, it borrows heavily […]
Feds chart path on small modular reactors as questions on nuclear’s role in climate push remain
The Liberal government is examining the future potential of smaller nuclear reactors in Canada, even as it shies away from explicitly endorsing new nuclear generation as a way to move towards low-emission energy production. Natural Resources Canada is asking stakeholders for their input on charting a “roadmap” on future development and demonstration of “small modular […]
