A big focus of the criticism was that the legislation did not include a requirement to set a target for 2025. He also committed to changing the law to reflect Canada’s newly-declared emissions target for 2030, which is at least 40 per cent below 2005 levels. Loading... Loading... Loading... Loading... Loading... Loading...Andrew Gage, a staff lawyer with the firm West Coast Environmental Law, said the bill as written is too weak to fulfil its purpose: to end the “international embarrassment” that Canada has never hit an emissions target set by the federal government. “We’ve been glad to see that the NDP and Liberals are talking to each other. And we’ve been encouraging all parties to move this legislation to committee so that it can be strengthened,” Gage said.

Source: thestar April 30, 2021 20:37 UTC