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In the seven years since Trudeau took office, emissions have plateaued while Canada’s economy has grown eight per cent. A cleaner electric grid coexists with even more extraction and burning of oil. But all of Canada’s peers in the Group of Seven, or G7, have managed to achieve economic growth while simultaneously cutting emissions, and Canada’s environmental commissioner says the country is struggling to bend the emissions curve.
Trudeau is all too aware of those hurdles. “Over many decades, different parties, including my own, put forward plans on fighting climate change or targets around fighting climate change that didn’t relate necessarily to concrete plans,” he said in the interview. “So in 2015, we decided to turn that around.”
Yet even under Trudeau’s climate-oriented government, oil and gas production has expanded. “We’re still a country that relies heavily on fossil carbon extraction,” said Jerry DeMarco, who as Canada’s commissioner of environment and sustainable development scrutinizes whether government policies deliver on their promises. “But that’s not the way to get to net zero.”Meanwhile, the planet has already warmed 1.
Trudeau’s government has managed to get some politically hard climate policies over the finish line, “and the hardest one arguably was carbon pricing,” said Harrison. The government set an initial benchmark price at $50 per metric ton, lasting through 2022. Later, Canada announced this price would increase up to $170 per ton by 2030 with incremental bumps each year. “That’s a significant carbon price,” said Harrison.
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