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Climate is still changing while Canada courts the UN

Canada's record on reducing carbon emissions doesn't match Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's rhetoric.

Opinion
BY SUSAN RILEY
June 15, 2020

Opinion | BY SUSAN RILEY | June 15, 2020

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Oilsands, pictured in Fort McMurray, Alta., in 2008. How can Ottawa justify billion-dollar programs—to clean up orphan wells, capture fugitive methane emissions, underwrite the construction of $50-billion carbon capture projects of dubious effectiveness—when the industry has emerged from a seven-year downturn rolling in cash? It can’t. It shouldn’t bother trying, writes Susan Riley. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

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