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I thought Canada was supposed to be better than us?

I just assumed that since the US government has been such an overwhelming shitshow, it was distracting us from the better job being done in the nation to our north. The prime minister is Mark Carney, who leads the liberal party, so he must be doing good things. Maybe not.

A University of Toronto professor, Laura Tozer, teaches a grad level course in climate and climate policy. She has a few complaints for Carney to address.

“Every single semester, a student raises their hand in my class and asks: ‘Professor, is there any hope on climate change?’ How about this year when the new semester starts in January, you get to look them in the eye and answer,” she wrote in her letter, posted on LinkedIn, which also rattles off the laundry list of climate rollbacks under Carney.
X Suspended Canada’s Clean Electricity Regulations in Alberta

X Weakened methane regulations

X Scrapped the Oil & Gas Sector Emissions Cap

X Abandoned Canada’s consumer carbon pricing system

X Ended Canada Greener Homes retrofit program to electrify and improve household efficiency

X Ended Canada Greener Homes Loan Program to electrify and improve household efficiency

X Ended the Electric Vehicles (iZEV) program

X Delayed Canada’s Zero-Emission Vehicle (ZEV) mandate

X Passed bill C5 ‘Building Canada Act’ to allow government to override 12 laws and 7 regulations, including the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, for designated projects

X Committed to clawing back Canada’s anti-greenwashing legislation

> Announced plans to eliminate a tax on private jets and yachts

X Weakened the Alberta industrial carbon price from the $170/tonne it should have been (if the federal government enforced its own policies) to $130/tonne

Whoa. I’ve been ignoring Canada (forgive me, you know we Americans kind of have our hands full), but apparently the Canadian government has been fucking up, too. It sounds like Carney has been fully captured by the oil interests and is giving up on conservation efforts.

How is he doing on health policy and vaccination? Is he planning to take over Greenland? I’m afraid to look.

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Comments

  1. specialffrog says

    Carney is basically Canadian Starmer. Won because of the opposition and then tacking hard right despite what the people who voted for him want.

  2. raven says

    “Every single semester, a student raises their hand in my class and asks: ‘Professor, is there any hope on climate change?’

    No.

    The long term goal of the climate change accords was 1.5 degrees C.

    The 1.5°C warming target, set by the Paris Agreement, is increasingly out of reach, with scientists confirming that the world temporarily surpassed this threshold in 2023-2024, with 2024 being the first full year above 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.

    We are there and CO2 levels and global temperatures are still going up rapidly.

    1.5 C is gone.

    Last year (2023), global oil production hit a record high, averaging around 96 million barrels per day (b/d), with the U.S. leading, while total natural gas supply was roughly 144,146,098 Terajoules (TJ), led by the U.S., Russia, and China, according to data from the International Energy Agency (IEA) and Energy Institute (EI).

    Simultaneously with running past 1.5 C, global oil production set yet again another record high.

    So we have CO2 levels still going up rapidly, the Global temperature going up rapidly, and fossil fuel production setting records every year.

    There is no scenario in sight for halting global warming.

  4. Reginald Selkirk says

    The prime minister is Mark Carney…

    Canada is being led by a Carney, and the USA is being run by a clown car cabinet. It’s a great day for the circus.

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