This article was last updated on April 16, 2022
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Canada’s new environment minister, Leona Aglukkaq, is scheduled to participate in her first international climate negotiations this week. The ministerial meetings at the United Nation’s Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) are scheduled to take place in Warsaw, Poland. However, the head of Climate Action Network Canada, Chistian Holz, alleged that new Canadian face will not change much at the 19th session of the UNFCCC. Holz stated that “it seems to me really that the Canadian delegation here has become largely irrelevant,” adding that the reason for that is Canada’s reputation for inaction on climate change.
Addressing reporters before the meetings, Aglukkaq alleged that Canada has done plenty to reduce down greenhouse gases. She highlighted her government’s sector-by-sector approach, where she pointed out that emissions standards for light and heavy vehicles and coal-burning power plants have already been agreed on. Discussing Australia’s withdrawal of its levy on greenhouse gases, she commented that “everyone has their own approach and we know a carbon tax would increase the price of everything in Canada.”
Contrary to these achievements, Green Party leader Elizabeth May stated that such statements put Canada in an ugly light. She alleged that “this is not where Canadians want to be. We have become, at UN climate meetings, the worst country in the room.” May confessed that she is often met with derision at the time she attends these talks just because she is Canadian, adding that “Canada’s profile in these international negotiations has fallen so low that we really are met with a wall of contempt.”
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