After years of being misled by false claims from Canada’s Liberal government that its targets to reduce industrial greenhouse gas emissions to address climate change were achievable, we can no longer trust it.

In 2023, then-federal environment minister Steven Guilbault boasted that the Justin Trudeau government was committing more than $200 billion of taxpayers’ money to 149 programs spread across 13 government departments to reduce Canada’s emissions.

Despite this massive expenditure, the Canadian Climate Institute (CCI), the leading domestic monitor of government efforts to reduce emissions, said earlier this month that the federal target of reducing annual emissions to at least 40% below 2005 levels in 2030 is out of reach.

As of 2024, the CCI estimates, Canada’s emissions were just

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