EDITORIAL: Federal government's climate targets based on deception

EDITORIAL: Federal government's climate targets based on deception

A good first step when Prime Minister Mark Carney unveils his climate competitiveness plan would be to end a decade of deceit by the previous Liberal government in setting its industrial greenhouse gas emission targets.

This week, yet another energy monitoring agency — the Trottier Energy Institute at Polytechnique Montreal — concluded Canada will achieve barely half of the Liberals’ targets of reducing emissions to at least 40% below 2005 levels in 2030.

The Canadian Climate Institute announced similar findings a month ago, saying emissions as of last year were stalled at a mere 8.5% below 2005 levels.

What’s new about the Trottier Energy Institute findings is they lead to the reasonable conclusion that the Liberals’ climate-c

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