Is Canada still planning to meet its Kyoto commitments?
In a word – no. The election of a Conservative government in 2006 brought about a reversal in Canada’s climate change policy. The specific emissions reduction targets of the Kyoto Protocol – at least as far as Canada was concerned – would be abandoned. In April 2005, then prime minister Paul Martin and his Liberal government unveiled what they called Moving Forward on Climate Change: A Plan for Honouring Our Kyoto Commitment. Under their revised plan, the Liberals pledged to spend $10 billion over seven years to help Canada cut its average greenhouse gas emissions by 270 megatonnes a year from 2008 to 2012. However, when Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Conservative government tabled the federal budget in May 2006, there wasn’t a single mention of the Kyoto Protocol. Finance Minister Jim Flaherty repeated his pledge to develop a $2-billion, five-year “made-in-Canada” climate change plan, but there were no details. The budget also set aside $370 million over two years for a new tax
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