Letter - Regulating Canada’s oil and gas industry with a strong emissions cap September 18th, 2023 To: the Right Honourable Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada The Honourable Chrystia Freeland, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance The Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources The Honourable Steven Guilbeault, Minister of the Environment and Climate Change A. [...] And the root cause of climate change is the elephant in Canada’s climate policy room: the continued expansion of the production and consumption of fossil fuels. [...] The Canadian government’s failure to constrain the continued expansion of oil and gas has a direct impact on the lives of communities and ecosystems, both at home and worldwide. [...] Canada is one of the world's biggest polluters, as well as the largest oil and gas producers and exporters – and it's lagging well behind other G7 countries on cutting emissions, held back by the outsized carbon footprint of the oil and gas industry. [...] As a major oil and gas exporter, Canada must use every tool in its toolkit to align itself with the global energy transition and immediately end the expansion of fossil fuel production and infrastructure.
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