Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is headed to the UN General Assembly with the planet at a climate crossroads — and Canada facing an ever more fraught relationship with the world's fastest-growing economy.
The day before departing for New York, Trudeau rocked the House of Commons with"credible allegations" linking agents of India's government to the deadly shooting this past June of a Sikh leader in Surrey, B.C.
"It is contrary to the fundamental rules by which free, open and democratic societies conduct themselves." The climate crisis grew ever more real in 2023, with a record-setting wildfire season in Canada, catastrophic flooding in Libya and a record 23 separate billion-dollar weather disasters in the U.S. in just the first eight months.
And the UN's ambitious effort to check off a laundry list of sustainable development goals — a particular focus for Trudeau — has largely stalled, hampered by political intransigence and sluggish post-pandemic economies. "There was sort of a school of thought that said, 'Every day, everything's getting better, it's not getting worse.' Right now, we can't say that.
"It's a today issue, and it's as much about resilience, adaptation and really investing in infrastructure and other ways of protecting people's health and safety for the current crisis, which will be ongoing."
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