Climate summit to weigh concrete actions
The city’s impending climate summit is meant to consider concrete actions toward reducing emissions. I find myself hoping it can have some effect, but I’m not sure it can. Canada is a big emitter of greenhouse gas and, if the next federal government is Tory – as, with predictable Canadian-ness, it probably will be, given our pendulum politics – this country will revert to mining even more fossil fuels than it does now. What a city can do is minimal by comparison.
A terse opinion piece in the Journal raises some pertinent points focused on one key question: since our way of life must change, how much change are we willing to accept? As Madeleine Pilote‑Côté writes, taking our own bag to the grocery store is not enough.
Dominic 12:22 on 2022-04-15 Permalink
Unless the Liberal-NDP coalition-lite is an introduction to the potential to see real coalition governments in this country…
Kevin 13:50 on 2022-04-15 Permalink
The next federal election won’t be for three or four years. The NDP needs cash too much to allow one earlier.
And at that point we’ll see how much people like PP as Con leader
Ian 19:22 on 2022-04-15 Permalink
Let us not forget that Polievere once proposed cutting all social programs, entirely. This guy is going to make Harper look like an elder statesman personifying reason and humanitariansim.
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2022/03/canada-elections-conservatives-liberal-austerity-crypto-poilievre