Trudeau has heated moment when asked to reconcile climate plan with pipeline purchase
Hecklers interrupted him at least three times as he tried to answer.
Trudeau, Ford spar over infrastructure funding | CBC News
“We have a large amount of
money ready to be invested in tangible infrastructure projects like
public transit, and the provincial government under Doug Ford does not
want to partner with us to make those investments,” Trudeau said
Tuesday.
Federal-versus-provincial powers take centre stage in Ontario carbon tax court battle | CBC Radio
This is the question being argued in the Ontario Court of Appeals this week as the province’s government appeals the federally-imposed carbon tax.
“It’s
not really about whether carbon taxes are good or whether they
work; it’s whether the federal government has the power to impose this
onto provinces,” argues Aaron Wudrick, director of the Federal Taxpayers
Federation, who are intervening in support of Ontario’s Progressive
Conservative government.
Ontario changes regulations on who pays to upgrade power lines | CBC News
Iain Angus, the co-chair of the energy
task force with Common Voice Northwest, said one example is an upgrade
needed on the power line to Greenstone.
The budget commits no designated funding to the climate plan unveiled
earlier this year by Environment Minister Rod Phillips, but includes
unspecified dollars for a long-overdue climate vulnerability assessment,
and for performance standards for industrial greenhouse gas emitters, states
David McLaughlin, climate change director-Canada at the International
Institute for Sustainable Development. “The good news, therefore, is
that the government appears committed to what it already announced.
Nothing added but nothing subtracted either. The question now becomes,
when do they act and how much money will they actually commit to it?” he
writes.