Canada's promise to produce an inventory of its fossil fuel subsidies as part of a joint peer review with Argentina appears to be off schedule and may not deliver results until 2021, an environmental advocate says.
The New Democrats are seeking to boost momentum in the polls with ambitious promises, while the Liberals are trying to refresh their sullied record with tax cuts.
Two years after the auditor general concluded that the Trudeau government had failed to identify its subsidies for the oil and gas industry, Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says federal officials are still working on it.
As climate change warms the oceans and melts polar ice, rising the seas and provoking extreme storms, G7 members have found themselves unable to share basic facts about their promise to kill off government handouts to carbon-polluting industries.
The federal government has taken a step towards fulfilling it's promise to get rid of fossil fuel subsidies by agreeing to finally explain how much it actually spends on them.
Alexandra Mendès said she wasn’t trying to hide anything by introducing a motion to move a committee studying fossil fuel subsidies behind closed doors.
The government has had eight years to come up with a list of actions and timelines to deliver on the commitment made by former prime minister Stephen Harper at the 2009 G20 summit.
Young leaders highlighted nine key actions in Marrakech that they say the Liberal government must take so that its climate change goals do not become empty rhetoric.
With up to $500 million at stake, a controversial review of Arctic oil exploration initiated by Conservatives and big oil companies will proceed, the Liberal government has announced.