Alberta’s re\u002Delect conservative leader Danielle Smith has put herself on a collision course with Canada’s Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over climate…
In her victory speech in front of cheering supporters in Canada’s oil capital Calgary, Smith called on Albertans to stand up against policies including the federal government’s proposed oil and gas emissions cap and clean electricity regulations, expected to be unveiled within weeks.
The federal government says Canada needs to cut emissions from oil and gas production to stay competitive as the world transitions to net-zero by 2050.Article content “One of the challenges is there is a political class in Alberta that has decided that anything to do with climate change is going to be bad for them or for Alberta,” Trudeau told Reuters in a January interview.Article content
For Trudeau, Smith may be a better political counterpoint than her less controversial rival Notley would have been, Bricker said, as the Liberals can cast her as a western version of federal Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre.
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