Our environmental crises continue to worsen from climate change to biodiversity to microplastics to the state of our forests.

I thought climate would be front and centre in the current federal election. A Leger poll last month found 65% of Canadians think Canada should invest in renewables rather than fossil fuel development. Also, 62% felt Canada should maintain its climate commitments independent of the U.S. administration’s decisions and 67% agreed the next Canadian government should make climate action and protecting nature a priority.

So why do we not hear more about climate action and other environmental issues in this election?

It is true the U.S. President Donald Trumpis taking up a lot of the oxygen in our election. One of his main policies is to halt action on climate and environmental regulations and increase fossil fuel exploitation, even to the point of putting pressure on trading partners to buy more American fossil fuels.

In the tariff crisis Trump has created, it is inevitable all lobby groups, from industry to NGOs, will declare the crisis response should include putting a higher priority on their preferred projects.

Conservative Leader, Pierre Poilievre has been a consistent booster........

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