Minister of Environment and Climate Change Jonathan Wilkinson, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Minister of Infrastructure and Communities Catherine McKenna hold a news conference at the Ornamental Gardens in Ottawa on Nov. 19, 2020.Canadians are about to get a better sense of the federal government’s seriousness when it comes to fighting climate change over the next decade.
The announcement appears timed to allow Ottawa to make a splash at an international “climate-ambition” summit being convened this weekend by the United Nations, Britain and France. Canada was recently added to the countries listed on the event’s website as having speaking slots, which a spokesperson for the British High Commission in Ottawa said are being reserved for those with new pledges to announce.
The plan could also involve strengthening methane regulations only recently put in place, which the government’s own modelling has shown will fall well short of its goal of reducing that form of GHG emissions 40-45 per cent by 2025. That would require reopening regulatory agreements with provinces, particularly fraught in Alberta’s case.
So measures that haven’t previously been promised will have to do a lot of the heavy lifting, and in recent days, rumours have been flying about what those could involve.
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)