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.”"
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I think its a lot more coal. I am also unsure why we would carbon tax ourselves, making our own production more expensive, but maintain free trade with the largest coal user on the planet with little to no environmental laws. If you saw and smelt the rivers in China I think you’d realize what a dirty place it is.
Heres a nice looking documentary on it that I found: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN0AVXZ_RrQ
Without adding coal to the mix, China doesn’t have a reliable and independent way of increasing its energy generation to the necessary levels. However, China is also essentially the producer of all solar photovoltaics on Earth, the biggest producer of wind turbines and nuclear reactors, and it’s currently building the largest hydro plant on Earth. China is also the main supplier of electric batteries enabling electrification of buses and cars, and pioneers the installation of ultra high voltage electric transmission.
I’ve been to China and visited the yellow river, I don’t know what you mean by the smell. I live in Spain, you should visit the Tajo river going through Toledo and smell it before you judge China. If you’re from the US you could visit Flint.
Chinese emissions have plateaued and started falling. They actually dropped in 2025, including a 1% drop in Q4.
Cutting off Chinese manufacturing and bringing it all here, including cutting out Chinese inputs to Canadian manufacturing, would not be more efficient at all. It would not be better for the environment. This is a fantasy. We would need massive industrial expansion. We would be making the global situation less efficient and more harmful by reducing complementary systems, increasing redundancies, and increasing industrial inefficiencies.