Editor:
Once again, Canada scores near the bottom among the 60 countries that the Climate Change Performance Index ranks for their performance in addressing climate change. This should be acutely embarrassing for a country that continually portrays itself as a leader in addressing climate change. True to form, however, instead of pulling up its socks and promising meaningful action (like cancelling all new fossil fuel projects, as the International Energy Agency says must be done if the world is to avoid climate disaster) Canada whines that the index is hard to understand, that it does not take account of the great things Canada has promised to do. I am particularly disappointed in Minister Guilbeault. I am sure he joined the cabinet convinced he could bend it toward renewables, but that was not to be. He should have resigned when he was forced to approve the Bay du Nord oil field and used that to denounce the government’s disgraceful performance on climate change. Now he is reduced to mumbling excuses while Canada rushes to maximize its contribution to, as Mr. Guterres so gently put it, “The race to climate hell.”
Michael Healey, Gibsons
