City to hold climate summit in May
The city is planning to host its first climate summit in May, to discuss the work needing to be done if we have a hope of reducing emissions significantly.
Allison Hanes says it’s Montreal that’s leading Quebec in environmental matters – and, more specifically, Mayor Plante.
DeWolf 11:53 on 2022-03-29 Permalink
It’s the mayors generally. Plante let the way, but now we have Bruno Marchand in Quebec City, Catherine Fournier in Longueuil, Évelyne Beaudin in Sherbrooke, France Bélisle in Gatineau and Stéphane Boyer in Laval, all of whom are progressive on urban development and environmental issues, and who are cut from the same cloth as Plante.
Meanwhile the provincial government has decided to carry the banner of all the car addicts who hate bikes and public transit – see Éric Caire’s offhand comment about the Quebec City tramway “polluting the lives of motorists.”
This is why we desperately need more powers to be devolved from the province to the municipalities.
Kate 14:03 on 2022-03-29 Permalink
We do, but asking Quebec to devolve powers is like asking a majority government to switch to proportional representation. It’s always a hard sell trying to get politicians to agree to reduce their own power.
Kevin 14:50 on 2022-03-29 Permalink
Quebec merged cities and dissolved school boards specifically to concentrate power.
If Quebec devolved powers then some anglophones might end up in change of something and that’s unacceptable.