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Fighting the normalization of right-wing ideology, from Ford to Kenney | rabble.ca
Given how Canada’s right lines up against environmental regulation,
against helping the poor and the marginalized, against safeguarding
reproductive choice, against respecting labour, organized or otherwise,
against higher education, LGBTI rights, clean water and more, the
nightmare scenario of right-wing ideology becoming normalized here as it
is becoming in Europe and the United States suddenly feels very
possible.
against helping the poor and the marginalized, against safeguarding
reproductive choice, against respecting labour, organized or otherwise,
against higher education, LGBTI rights, clean water and more, the
nightmare scenario of right-wing ideology becoming normalized here as it
is becoming in Europe and the United States suddenly feels very
possible.
No wonder many on the left are concerned that Prime Minister Justin
Trudeau, whom many progressives didn’t and don’t support, will be
battling against not just federal Conservative leader Andrew Scheer but
also a line-up of five right-wing premiers in this year’s federal
election.
Muskrat Falls: A story of unchecked oilmen and their boondoggle hydro project | CBC News
Muskrat Falls was billed as a strategy to meet the electricity
needs of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador with environmental
friendly, stable and competitively priced power.
needs of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador with environmental
friendly, stable and competitively priced power.
More than six
years after it was sanctioned, however, the focus now is trying to
complete the project without inflicting any more pain on the province.
It’s billions over budget, years behind schedule, and the subject of an ongoing commission of inquiry to determine why.
So why did things go so horribly wrong?
Province, feds submit closing arguments in Ontario carbon tax court battle | CBC News
In closing submissions, a federal lawyer
warned that climate change posed an urgent threat. Ottawa, she said, has
addressed an issue of national concern in a manner that respects
provincial jurisdiction.
warned that climate change posed an urgent threat. Ottawa, she said, has
addressed an issue of national concern in a manner that respects
provincial jurisdiction.
Ontario, however, stood by its view that
the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act — if deemed constitutional —
would undermine co-operative federalism by allowing Ottawa to overstep
the dividing line between federal and provincial spheres of authority.
“It
governs a broad range of activities that are in provincial
jurisdiction,” Ontario lawyer Josh Hunter said Thursday in his closing
comments. “It is not appropriate for a federation.”
Rachel Notley helped strike a grand bargain on oil and the climate. Can Trudeau save it? | CBC News
It was Notley who showed up to the first ministers’ conference in November 2015 with the most important building block in what would become Trudeau’s Pan-Canadian
Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change. Before flying to Ottawa,
Notley announced a suite of measures to reduce Alberta’s greenhouse gas
emissions, including a new carbon tax and a cap on emissions from the
oilsands.
Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change. Before flying to Ottawa,
Notley announced a suite of measures to reduce Alberta’s greenhouse gas
emissions, including a new carbon tax and a cap on emissions from the
oilsands.
It was some of the most significant climate policy ever
put forward by a government in Canada. Among the provinces, Alberta was
already the largest and fastest-growing source of emissions and the
oilsands sector was an easy focus for anxiety about the future of the
planet. Notley changed the terms of the debate by moving aggressively to take responsibility and challenge her province’s reputation.
In
doing so, she spared Trudeau from having to impose a solution on
Alberta — a province that is particularly sensitive about its
independence, particularly whenever someone named Trudeau is involved.
And what Notley put forward became a model for the federal backstop now
in place in Ontario, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and New Brunswick.