Justin Trudeau

"We aren’t the U.S., and implementing their solutions doesn’t get us as far," writes energy-worker-turned-environmental-poet Ross Belot.

Chrystia Freeland's first budget ends the fight against COVID — and begins a new one against climate change, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

On Thursday, Erin O’Toole, leader of the official Opposition Conservative Party, released his long-awaited climate plan, complete with its own price on pollution, meaning that all the major national political parties now support some form of carbon pricing.

The government says it will focus on building a clean economy in its 2021 budget. Establishing a just transition framework to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 is long overdue, writes Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood, a senior researcher with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.