Protecting the
Liberal Climate
Legacy
Canada’s
Climate Progress
Canada’s
Climate Progress
The Clean Electricity and Methane Regulations are reducing unhealthy air pollution; the Sustainable Jobs Act is establishing the building blocks of an economy abundant in good, unionized clean energy jobs; the First National Adaptation Strategy is helping keep people safe in the face of accelerating unnatural disasters.
Crucially, under Canada’s comprehensive climate legislation, the government enshrined long-term goals in law and brought effective governance, leading to the first ever decline in national emissions.
To protect and cement this legacy at a moment when climate deniers are putting it at great risk, all leadership candidates must endorse the following policies:
Making
Polluters Pay:
Build the New
Canadian Economy
and Promote Intergenerational Equity:
Resource the Youth Climate Corps, guaranteeing good paid climate jobs for young Canadians.
Do our Fair Share
on the International
Scene:
Secure and triple Canada’s international climate finance commitment post-2026.
Clean Air, Water
and Land:
Following the leadership of Indigenous communities, continue developing more Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas and implementing the goal of 30% protected areas by 2030. Fast-track the adoption of the First Nations Clean Water Act.
Looking towards
an affordable
and safe future
Looking towards
an affordable
and safe future
There is still much to do to fulfill the promise of a future in which Canadians, no matter where they live and what they do, can live good lives. Leadership contenders must expand our collective imagination with climate policies that bring concrete and equitable benefits.
They can promote the building of a new economy that provides immediate support to address rising costs, while tackling the long-term dependency on fossil fuels that make us poorer and more vulnerable to energy price shocks and climate disasters.
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To build on and learn from Justin Trudeau’s legacy, all leadership candidates must endorse the following policies:
Keeping
People Safe:
Strengthen and implement the National Adaptation Strategy and increase funding and availability of the Disaster Mitigation and Adaptation Fund.
Building the New Canadian
Economy and Promote
Intergenerational Equity:
Support clean growth by providing paid training for the economy of tomorrow in regions particularly affected by the energy transition.
Supporting
Communities Ownership
of Renewable Energy:
Invest in and support Indigenous and community ownership of renewable energy production, better coordinate the planning and funding for the distribution of electricity between provinces and ban thermal coal.
Comfortable and Sustainable Homes
and Buildings:
Ensure energy efficiency measures are accessible to all Canadians through the distribution of free heat pumps, develop new code requirements to limit pollution in new construction and alterations to existing buildings.
Foster Innovation in Canada’s
Transportation Sector:
Invest in an industrial strategy for made-in-Canada, affordable and accessible electric sedans; fast-track the development of high speed rail for intercity travel, and continue electrifying mass transit in cities, in part through the establishment of a permanent public transit fund with sufficient funding for operations.
Making Big Oil Pay:
End public support for fossil fuels, and implement a windfall profits tax on oil and gas surprofits, to be reinvested in emission reduction projects.
Strong Canadian
Leadership
Internationally:
Use Canada’s G7 leadership as an opportunity to show Canada is not shying away from raising climate ambition despite the new Trump administration.