Western Standard - March 31, 2022


Trudeau’s blame game of Harper and the Tories continue


Episode Stats

Length

1 minute

Words per Minute

138.87291

Word Count

161

Sentence Count

6


Summary

A new plan from the government calls for a net zero goal for Canada's oil and gas sector by 2030. It's an ambitious goal, but it's achievable, and it's one that's not only achievable, but achievable.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Lindsay Duncombe, CBC News. Following up on the idea of the fossil fuel industry, why make the call to hold oil and gas to just over 30% instead of going the full way and having them go over 40% as the rest of the economy is?
00:00:15.980 We lost 10 years on our path to 2030 because for 10 years, under the Harper Conservatives, nothing got done on fighting climate change, on reducing emissions from the oil and gas sector, on preparing for the future that everyone saw clearly was coming.
00:00:35.560 And that's why the work we have to do, yes, is ambitious, but it's also realizable.
00:00:42.560 We're going to reach that 40% cut in Canada's emissions by asking all different sectors, including oil and gas, to be incredibly ambitious and concrete in their ability to do that.
00:00:59.560 This is the plan that's going to get us to net zero by 50 and 40% by 2030.
00:01:07.560 Still special rules though, right?