Liberals to force Conservatives to vote on support for meeting Paris targets cdnpolI
And, given this, the House should "declare that Canada is in a national climate emergency which requires, as a response, that Canada commit to meeting its national emissions target under the Paris Agreement and to making deeper reductions in line with the Agreement's objective of holding global warming below two degrees Celsius and pursuing efforts to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius.
"Unfortunately Conservative politicians, from Jason Kenney to Doug Ford, to Andrew Scheer do not think that climate change is an increasing emergency. They do not see the economic opportunity of a cleaner future, and as a result they’re trying to take us back in time," McKenna told reporters on her way into a cabinet meeting on Parliament Hill Tuesday morning.
Though, eight months later it was on the same program where he walked back that promise. He could not commit that his plan would mean the targets, instead saying his plan would have "meaningful reductions."
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