The Globe and Mail reports in its Saturday edition that Canada's premiers reached a deal
Friday on a Canadian energy strategy. The Globe's Jane Taber and Adrian Morrow write that
the premiers hailed the deal as a "monumental"
document that recognizes the
importance of Canada's energy
industry to the economy.
However, the strategy waters
down commitments to fight global warming. The strongest climate
pledge -- a promise that all
provinces would adopt absolute
cuts to greenhouse gas emissions
-- has been stripped out from an
earlier draft version.
Ontario Premier Kathleen
Wynne, who with Quebec's Philippe
Couillard had pressed for more protections,
told The Globe
that "is the language everybody
could live with."
She focused, instead, on the
fact that until this document was
signed there was no shared goal
on energy and climate change
among provincial and territorial
leaders.
She said: "This is an issue of a strong
economy and strong environmental
protection, and those two
things are not mutually exclusive. ... They must be
complementary."
However, this leaves the climate change language in the plan little
more than a series of vague
aspirations for a "lower carbon
economy."
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