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Originally Posted by Monahammer
Here's what her page says:
Environmental Protection: Julie’s action on the environment and climate change includes work to modernize the Canada Environmental Protection Act, which includes developing the ban on single-use plastics and building a circular economy that places responsibility on the producers of waste to ensure that their items do not end up in landfill. She has supported putting a price on carbon pollution, has taken a strong stance against oil sands expansion, and has promoted the critical need for a transition from fossil fuels to a low-carbon economy. She has shared the priorities of local environmental groups with her colleagues in Ottawa. As a local resident who relies on cycling, walking and transit to get around the city, Julie is committed to federal support for public transit and cycling infrastructure.
- Ban on single use plastics was/ is a losing policy, but popular among the urban toronto crowd.
- producer responsibility for recycling is a very common policy in the developed world now.
- industrial price on carbon is a key Carney policy as well.
- Oil sands expansion: hard to see a positive here, though i suspect again this is heavily driven by her personal riding's inclinations about it. Time to see if this will hold up. Further, whenever someone talks about regulatory hurdles to oil sands growth now, I can't help but come back to this brilliant Andrew Leach tweet: https://x.com/andrew_leach/status/1882834950740914640
It's not just regulatory hurdles stopping development. All of these sites are already approved, but havent been built because they're uneconomical in today's conditions, or the export capacity hasn't developed to suit them yet. Notable that the minister says nothing about exports or pipelines.
- transition to a low carbon economy; that's coming directly from the local environmental groups she also mentions (interest group in riding...) and is just buzzword soup for center left politicians these days. IMO you could talk her into an ammonia pipeline based on this thinking. |
Effectively, someone who has lived in Toronto / Ottawa / Montreal her whole life and seeing things from a center of the universe Toronto / Montreal perspective without much insight to the rest of Canada.
This doesn't help the criticism but at least she hasn't climbed the CN Tower. And let's be honest, I would rather have someone who does care about the environment than someone who doesn't. It however needs to be pragmatic and understanding that many parts of Canada still depend on carbon emitting industries and need to be taken in consideration.
Apprehensive on the appointment.
On another note, single use ban of plastics applying to those compostable co-op bags still grates me as a virtue signaling action versus a pragmatic one.