OTTAWA – In response to Mark Carney becoming Prime Minister and appointing his first cabinet, Greenpeace Canada’s senior energy strategist Keith Stewart said:
“Canadians want to see their hard work over the last decade to fight climate change and to protect biodiversity to be continued and strengthened moving forward. Prime Minister Carney has a long history working on international climate finance and we hope to see his deep understanding of the issues translate into bold and ambitious policy.
The tying together of heritage and biodiversity files under Minister Guilbeault in the new Cabinet offers the possibility to press forward with protecting nature as a key part of Canadian identity and values, through the tabled Nature Accountability Act, and finalizing of global plastics and oceans treaties. We look forward to working with Minister Duguid on the climate file.
It is unfortunate that Pierre Poilievre successfully poisoned the well on consumer carbon tax by spreading false information, but it was the industrial carbon price that was achieving the bulk of pollution reductions so we are pleased to see that our new Prime Minister has promised to strengthen it and call on him to maintain and strengthen other key climate and biodiversity protection policies.
As President Trump takes a wrecking ball to U.S. environmental and human rights protections while threatening long-time allies, we need to resolutely reject ‘Maple MAGA’ proposals that would seek to replicate that agenda here. It is time for Canada to chart its own course to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels and the United States through an ambitious program to put Canadians to work building a greener economy and renewed internationalism.”
For more information, please contact:
Keith Stewart, Senior energy strategist, Greenpeace Canada, [email protected] ; + 1 416 659-0294
