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In the months before the federal budget was released, scores of meetings were recorded between fossil fuel industry representatives and the federal government. With a key ask from climate advocates ignored, who is Finance Canada listening to?
The findings from Leger come approximately one month before the federal government unveils its next budget. And environmental advocacy groups are urging Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland to respond to public support by taxing the record profits of the fossil fuel sector.
As international climate negotiations come down to the wire at COP28, and with the new draft Global Stocktake text falling severely short of what’s
Former environment and climate change minister Catherine McKenna told Canada’s National Observer it’s “completely bonkers” to come to a climate summit to push oil and gas extraction.
The proposed plan to tackle oil and gas sector emissions is to cut pollution from the sector by more than a third by 2030.