Green Party Leader Elizabeth May said the Carney government is not serious about climate change. May, who supported Carney’s budget in December, has since questioned the prime minister’s word after accusing him of a climate policy flip-flop.
“If we’re serious about emissions reduction, then we have to actually revisit some of the measures that have been eliminated since (Carney) took over,” May told The Canadian Press.
“They’re miles from hitting any of the Paris Agreement targets, and the prime minister did recommit to me on the floor of the House on Nov. 17 that this government is committed to the Paris Agreement and achieving its targets. So the emissions reduction update, the so-called climate competitiveness strategy — there’s lots of highfalutin titles for what boils down to…(no) climate plan.”"
Seriously. Can we stop fucking subsidizing oil? Solar is cheap now. The free market would handle the transition if we were weren’t giving them tax dollars.
Oil is an export that improves our current account balance and gives our dollar value, we only import solar for consumption, and we use the dollar value we get from our oil exports to do so. Oil is one of the most productive sectors of Canada with the highest productive hours per worker.
Sure if you only care about dollars that aren’t even yours.
And if it’s the most productive, why do they need my tax dollars too?
Free market? Sounds like communism to me.
Not only is solar dirt cheap and getting better (thanks China!) but battery technology is improving so drastically that any surplus energy we have can be easily stored for those (sometimes literal) rainy days. Wasn’t there a town in China that produced such a glut of electricity that they were exporting it to neighboring communities for free?