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Toronto Sun
19-07-2025
- Politics
- Toronto Sun
EDITORIAL: Find savings in Grits' climate boondoggle
Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks during the First Nations Summit at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Que., on Thursday, July 17, 2025. Photo by Spencer Colby / THE CANADIAN PRESS Since Prime Minister Mark Carney is seeking savings in the federal budget, we can think of no better place to start than the 149 programs costing more than $200 billion that the Liberal government has earmarked for climate change. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account. Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments. Enjoy additional articles per month. Get email updates from your favourite authors. THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account Given its primary goal of reducing industrial greenhouse gas emissions to at least 40% below 2005 levels by 2030, the Liberals' green crusade has been a bust. The latest government data from 2023 showed emissions were just 8.5% below 2005 levels. Achieving the Liberals' 2030 target will require the equivalent of eliminating all annual emissions from Canada's transportation and building sectors in seven years, which would cause a massive recession. According to federal environmental commissioner Jerry V. DeMarco, Canada has the worst record of cutting emissions in the G7. When he audited 20 of the 149 programs, he found fewer than half were on track to achieve their goals. Out of 32 additional measures the government claimed would assist in reaching the 2030 target, only seven were new. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. DeMarco found examples where different programs were funding the same projects and reporting the same expected emission cuts, raising the possibility of double-counting. He said the government's lack of transparency in reporting emissions made it impossible for the average citizen to understand its claims. The computer modelling used to estimate emissions was out of date, DeMarco said, and 'recent decreases to projected 2030 emissions were not due to climate action taken by governments but were instead because of revisions to the data used in modelling.' Despite spending over $6.6 billion on programs to help Canadians adapt to more severe weather caused by climate change since 2015, Demarco said, the Liberals' adaptation strategy, released in 2023, lacked essential elements to make it effective and progress since then has been slow. Auditor general Karen Hogan reported last year that in one of the 149 climate programs — the now-disbanded $1-billion Sustainable Development Technology Fund — there were 90 cases where conflict-of-interest rules were ignored in awarding $76 million in government contracts, plus 10 cases where $56 million was awarded to ineligible projects. Taxpayers are clearly not getting good value for money spent on these programs. It's time to root out waste and find efficiencies in what has become a massive boondoggle. World MMA Toronto & GTA Tennis Celebrity
CTV News
18-07-2025
- Politics
- CTV News
Carney to hold talks with Inuit leaders on major projects bill in N.W.T. next week
Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks during the First Nations Summit at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Que., on Thursday, July 17, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney will be in Inuvik, N.W.T. on July 24 to continue talks with Indigenous groups on the government's major projects bill. Carney will co-host the Inuit-Crown Partnership Committee with Natan Obed, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami president. The meeting will cover a range of issues according to the Prime Minister's Office, including how the Building Canada Act can be implemented consistent with Inuit land claims agreements and in partnership with Inuit. The Building Canada Act gives the government the ability to fast track projects that are deemed to be in the national interest by sidestepping some review requirements under a host of federal laws. Carney hosted a meeting with hundreds of First Nations chiefs in Gatineau, Que. Thursday in the for the first of three meetings with Indigenous groups. Some chiefs walked out of the meeting of the summit saying they saw an insufficient response to concerns they'd been raising for weeks, while others left the meeting 'cautiously optimistic.' Before travelling to Inuvik, the prime minister will also briefly visit Fort Smith, the town in the Northwest Territories where he was born and spent his early childhood. This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 18, 2025.
Toronto Star
18-07-2025
- Politics
- Toronto Star
Major projects: How Bill C-5 works and why Indigenous leaders are so concerned
Chief Phyllis Whitford of O'Chiese First Nation speaks during a press conference on the sidelines of the First Nations Summit in Ottawa, on Thursday, July 17, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby SC flag wire: true flag sponsored: false article_type: : sWebsitePrimaryPublication : publications/toronto_star bHasMigratedAvatar : false :
CBC
17-07-2025
- Politics
- CBC
Ottawa has a 'trust-deficit' from First Nations, says AFN chief
Assembly of First Nations National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak tells Power & Politics that the First Nations summit is the first step to earning Indigenous trust and involvement in major projects.
CBC
17-07-2025
- Politics
- CBC
Carney's response to Bill C-5 court challenge ‘political propaganda,' lawyer says
Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke to reporters ahead of a First Nations summit on Bill C-5 in Gatineau, Que. Kate Kempton, senior counsel behind a claim filed by nine First Nations, says she feels 'anger, disappointment, disgust' at Carney's response to the C-5 court challenge.
