This is a guest post by Tim Gray, executive director of Environmental Defence. It originally appeared on the Toronto Star.
It was troubling last week when Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau seemed to suggest that provinces could just do their own thing on climate action without much federal involvement other than hand holding. Government action addressing climate change is evolving quickly at the provincial level but that does not absolve the federal government of its responsibility to set a level playing field and spur action.
It would have been great had the federal government implemented a pan-Canadian climate change plan eight years (Read more…)