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A hot spot from the Lower East Adams Lake wildfire burns in Scotch Creek, B.C., in August 2023. Provincial premiers have increasingly turned their backs on climate action, forcing the federal government to largely go it alone. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Are freeloading premiers undermining Canada’s climate strategy?

Mark Winfield, York University, Canada

A little more than five years ago, there was a strong federal-provincial consensus around climate action. With the election of several Conservative premiers since then, that consensus has vanished.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks about the federal government’s newly imposed carbon tax at an event in Toronto in October 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette

Rethinking Canada’s climate policy from the ground up

Adebayo Majekolagbe, Dalhousie University

Canada’s top-down approach to designing its climate policy has failed. It needs to find ways to engage with individuals.

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  1. British Columbia
  2. Canada
  3. Carbon price
  4. Carbon tax
  5. Climate change
  6. Home heating
  7. Justin Trudeau
  8. Manitoba
  9. New Brunswick

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