Mark Carney’s climate plan won’t work, former minister says

OTTAWA—Former Liberal environment minister Catherine McKenna is casting doubt on attempts to strike a “grand bargain” between the federal government and the fossil fuel industry, as she stresses the importance of Canada’s greenhouse emissions targets under the international Paris Agreement that Prime Minister Mark Carney has recently downplayed.

In an interview with the Star to mark the release of her new memoir, McKenna avoided directly criticizing Carney’s government, stating repeatedly that she is waiting to see more details from the administration’s promised climate plan.

But she questioned the general idea of a “grand bargain” — touted recently by Carney himself — to exchange new fossil fuel infrastructure for meaningful greenhouse gas reductions from Canada’s heaviest emitting sect