Liberals Shy Away from Improving Carbon Targets

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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liberals shy away from improving carbon targetsEnvironment Minister Catherine McKenna has mentioned in an interview that the Liberal government does not plan to update the Conservatives’ carbon emission targets even though it had earlier called them unambitious during the time of the previous government. During an interview with CTV, McKenna alleged that the previous government failed to reduce carbon emissions during its 10 years in office because their targets were “fake.”

Just before the Paris climate talks last year, McKenna had alleged that the previous government’s carbon emission targets were floor and “not the ceiling” of what Canada should be doing. However, McKenna has now confirmed that she’s still going to stick with those Conservative targets. She explained that “what I said is that we will at least meet the target, and that is what I am committed to,” adding that “the Harper target was a fake target because they did nothing. It’s not a real target.”

Former Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government was criticized by many people, including Liberal politicians, for setting lower targets and eventually withdrawing from the Kyoto Protocol after it was clear Canada wouldn’t be able to meet its Kyoto pledge. However, the previous government had subsequently blamed its Liberal predecessors for not doing enough to meet the Kyoto targets to which Jean Chrétien’s government had committed in the 1990s. In her remarks on the situation, McKenna assured that “we’re going to take real action for Canadians. We’re going to grow our economy, we’re going to reduce our emissions and we’re going to meet our target”

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