Has Canada bent the curve on climate pollution? As recently as Wednesday, the prevailing orthodoxy was that we had — progress has been uneven and the results modest at best, but the overall trend was finally headed in the right direction.

And then, on Thursday, we learned that Canada made no progress cutting climate pollution last year. The Canadian Climate Institute (CCI) announced that emissions had “flatlined” and declared our 2030 climate target “out of reach.” More ominously, the think tank concluded that progress is “fragile and slipping,” and the underlying momentum is “going the wrong way.”

You won’t be surprised to hear that the biggest single driver of emissions is the oilsands which is at record production levels and now accounts for almost one-third (31 per cent) of Ca

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