Under Trudeau’s plan, Canada was never going to meet its targets – and it's reasonable to assume the PM has known that for a long time

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After years of nonsense spouted by Canada’s Liberal government, Prime Minister Mark Carney acknowledged in year-end interviews with CBC that “Canada is not going to reach our 2030 and 2035 climate targets” under former PM Justin Trudeau’s climate change plan.

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He said it had “too much regulation, not enough action” with a lot of talk “and then nothing happens,” thus admitting the failure of Trudeau’s taxpayer-financed, $200-billion-plus strategy.

That funded 149 government programs administered by 13 federal departments to reduce Canada’s annual industrial greenhouse gas emissions to 40% to 45% below 2005 levels by 2030, 45% to 50% by 2035 and net zero by 2050.

According to the federally-funded Canadian Climate Institute, Canada’s emissions last year were stalled at 694 million tonnes, the same as in 2023, just 8.5% below 2005 levels.

Meeting the minimum federal target of a 40% cut in annual emissions compared to 2005 by 2030 would require reducing them to 455 million tonnes, or by 239 million tonnes annually, in five years.

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