A running list of specific promises announced by the Liberals, Conservatives, NDP and Green party since the official start of the Canadian federal election campaign on Aug. 15.
If the Conservative party forms government and implements its climate plan, it would violate the terms of the Paris Agreement, environmental law experts say.
The Tories' climate plan sticks with the 30 per cent target. But because the federal government has submitted a more ambitious target, walking back from it would “be a breach of the Paris Agreement,” Aaron Cosbey, an economist with the International Institute for Sustainable Development, told iPolitics.
Nous voulons combattre les changements climatiques, mais nous en finançons encore le moteur.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh was in Montreal on Monday, where he discussed his party's environmental platform and vowed to end all subsidies for the oil and gas industry, if his party wins next month.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh focused on the environment as he campaigned in central Montreal, where his party hopes to regain seats it lost in the past two elections.
If elected, the federal NDP would identify fossil fuel subsidies, eliminate them "once and for all," and spend the money on the renewable energy sector, Leader Jagmeet Singh said on the campaign trail Monday morning.
Commitments made by the Liberal and Conservative parties won't get Canada where it needs to be to avert the worst effects of climate change, experts say.
Aaron Cosbey, economist at the International Institute for Sustainable Development, talks about the role of climate change in the upcoming federal election and says this interest is driven by the reality of wildfires and heat domes across the country. Cosbey breaks down the different parties' climate change platforms.
«Au cours de la décennie Harper, notre environnement a souffert. Les Canadiens ne peuvent pas laisser cette inaction continuer, le coût est trop élevé», déclarait Justin Trudeau lors de la campagne électorale de 2015 en épinglant le premier ministre sortant, conservateur. (Article disponible uniquement en français.)