Jonathan Wilkinson defends Liberal government’s record on energy transition.
“We are in a climate crisis,” Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson said. “Underline the word crisis.” | Justin Tang/The Canadian PressOTTAWA — Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson rejects the idea that climate targets have evolved into an oil-and-gas-killing religion in Canada.
“Some of the uncertainty with respect to the political scene in the United States actually plays in Canada’s favor,” Wilkinson tells POLITICO. “We have a greater amount of political stability here.”What bugs you about what Lisa Raitt said? What the average Canadian — and certainly the environmental community — hears when they say, “let’s not talk about targets, let’s only talk about the economy,” is that the business community doesn’t care about climate change. I don’t think that’s true.
On the challenging side for Canada, they’re spending an enormous amount of money. That created a competitive issue for Canada in some areas. Some of the uncertainty with respect to the political scene in the United States actually plays in Canada’s favor. We have a greater amount of political stability here.
The most sort of revolutionary part of the budget was the investment tax credit for clean electricity generation and transmission. It represents an enormous step by the federal government into an area that has been provincial jurisdiction, not in a way where we’re telling provinces what to do, but in a manner that we can support some of the work they need to do financially.
Were you surprised by the coverage of the prime minister’s comments last week that the government is “I was surprised by how much coverage it got, to be honest with you. I don’t think he’s saying anything different from what I and others have been saying for some time, which is, we are in a climate crisis — underline the word crisis.
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