There’s a big hole at the centre of the Tories’ climate strategy | CBC News
The Conservative Party’s climate change-fighting blueprint, dubbed A Real Plan to Protect Our Environment, was more than a year in the making — and it promises many things.
There’s
a pledge to create a Green Homes Tax Credit, which would allow
Canadians to recoup 20 per cent of what they spend to make their homes
more energy efficient, up to a maximum of $3,800. And a vow to tax
made-in-Canada climate-friendly inventions at a lower rate in order to
spur research and development. The Tories are also committing to
improving conservation funding and coming up with better ways to manage
wetlands and other habitats.
But Andrew Scheer’s environmental plan has one big hole: It doesn’t set any targets for greenhouse gas reductions, which is the very point of the 2015 Paris Agreement.