Energy sector looking for aid and regulation delays as throne speech looms
Canada’s fossil-fuel sector is looking to this month’s Throne Speech for signs the federal government is not throwing in the towel on oil and gas.
Meanwhile Canadian climate strikers are threatening mass protests if the same speech doesn’t show a plan to eliminate all greenhouse-gas emissions produced by human activities in Canada in less than a decade.
The two visions for the throne speech, expected Sept. 23, are at odds and both are ratcheting up the pressure on the Liberal government ahead of a cabinet retreat where the Liberals are expected to make the final policy decisions for the throne speech and the plans for economic recovery from the pandemic.