The Globe and Mail reports in its Saturday, July 18, edition that Canada's premiers reached a deal on a Canadian Energy Strategy, hailing it as a "monumental" document that recognizes the importance of the country's energy industry to the economy. The Globe's Jane Taber and Adrian Morrow write that the strategy, however, waters down commitments to fight global warming. The strongest pledge, a promise that all provinces would adopt absolute cuts to greenhouse gas emissions, has been stripped from an earlier draft. Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne, who along with Quebec's Philippe Couillard has pressed for stronger environmental protections, said the final version "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 the 13 provincial and territorial leaders. "This is an issue of a strong economy and strong environmental protection and those two things are not mutually exclusive," she said. "They must be complementary." However, this leaves the global warming language in the plan as little more than a series of vague aspirations for a "lower carbon economy."