Trudeau says Liberals will enforce net zero carbon emissions by 2050
Credit to Author: Scott Brown| Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2019 18:46:44 +0000
The campaign trail brings Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau to the Lower Mainland Tuesday.
The prime minister is scheduled to make a morning stop at Nano One Materials, a Burnaby electric car battery company, before attending a campaign rally in Surrey tonight. Trudeau will be joined by Randeep Sarai, the Liberal candidate for Surrey-Centre, at the Aria Banquet Hall (12350 Pattullo Place) at 7 p.m.
Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau made a morning stop at Nano One Materials, a Burnaby electric car battery company, on Tuesday.
In Burnaby, Trudeau said, if re-elected, the Liberals would enforce net zero carbon emissions by 2050.
“We will hit net zero by 2050. Not only because we can but because we must,” said Trudeau, who was short on details on how the Liberals would achieve the emission reductions but stated major policy discussions ahead will be centred around climate change.
In response to Trudeau’s climate action announcement, the NDP released this terse statement: “You. Bought. A. Pipeline.”
The Liberal government purchased the Trans Mountain Pipeline from Kinder Morgan Inc. for $4.5 billion last year.
Trudeau has approved an expansion plan to twin the existing pipeline — thereby tripling the capacity — from Alberta’s oilpatch to the Burnaby terminal on the Burrard Inlet.
The Federal Court of Appeals announced earlier this month that it will hear six challenges of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion focusing on the federal government’s consultations with Indigenous communities between August 2018 and June 2019.
“Maybe don’t announce your environmental policy next to the pipeline you bought?,” tweeted Niki Ashton, the NDP’s MP for Churchill-Keewatinook Aski.
The Conservatives, meanwhile, reacted to Trudeau’s announcement with the dire prediction that a net zero emission policy would “destroy the economies of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Newfoundland, while also destroying the manufacturing sector in Ontario and Quebec.”
Outside the Burnaby venue, the Trudeau campaign motorcade caused a traffic snarl after the bus carrying the media bottomed out and became stuck become stuck while rolling down into the parking lot of Nano One Materials.
Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau’s campaign media bus bottomed out while pulling into an election stop in Burnaby on Tuesday. The back end of bus was dragging on the roadway before become stuck while rolling down into the parking lot of Nano One Materials.
It’s Trudeau’s first visit to Metro Vancouver since becoming embroiled in a photo scandal.
Time magazine first posted a photo of Trudeau wearing “brownface” makeup at an “Arabian Nights” party in 2001, which was published in the yearbook from the West Point Grey Academy, a private school in Vancouver where Trudeau once worked as a teacher.
Photos have since surfaced that depicted Trudeau wearing dark makeup on two other occasions.
According to a survey from InSights West, 52 per cent of British Columbians view Trudeau’s face painting past as a serious issue for the governing Liberals ahead of the Oct. 21 federal election.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, the MP for Burnaby South, will be appear before The Vancouver Sun/The Province editorial board this afternoon and then later at rally tonight at the Firefighters Banquet and Conference Centre (6515 Bonsior Avenue) in Burnaby.
Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is campaigning in Ontario today, while Green Leader Elizabeth May is in the Maritimes.
Meanwhile, People’s Party of Canada Leader Maxime Bernier visits Metro Vancouver. on Wednesday for a 10:30 a.m. town hall with the Surrey Board of Trade at the Vancouver Guildford Hotel (15269 104 Avenue), a 2 p.m. media event at the Terminal City Club, and a 7 p.m. public rally at the Hellenic Centre (4500 Arbutus Street).