Trudeau says recovery following COVID-19 pandemic must include ‘ambitious’ climate change plan

Countries rebuilding from the devastation left by the novel coronavirus pandemic must do so in a way that includes an “ambitious plan to take strong action against climate change,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Saturday.

“We will raise our emission reduction ambitions,” he said in a pre-recorded video. “And in partnership with provinces and territories, we as a country will strive for the upper end of a range of 32 to 40 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030.“

Trudeau made the comments during a virtual summit with world leaders on Saturday to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Paris climate accord.

The agreement, adopted in 2015 by 196 countries, saw nations pledge to keep their greenhouse gas emissions under a level that would keep global temperatures from rising above 2 C, and ideally no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius by the end of the century.

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[bnanm]

Recovery will start when YOU are out of

[yepyep]

This guy and his party is out of touch. Canada, get him out.

[Polly_Ticks]

Right in the middle of a pandemic --- this guy proposes a new climate plan and increasing taxes

[jbezmala]

How are there so many people who voted for this guy for a second term? It is mind boggling.

[burtonater]

Where are your videos showing that Chinese People's Liberation Army troops trained with Canadian soldiers on Canadian soil???

[farmerx]

You can tell he is having fun delivering these lies to us.

[aruk]

I have never been more ashamed of my country.

[brennenmichelin]

We need a referee to run Canada, not a player.

[MGalaxy]

Right, blow away the labour of Canadians. Where are the smart people?

[jaredwalsh]

$22 carbon tax to $170 Carbon by 2030 and it will still fail and no 200 trees yet

[farmkatt]

What does our opposition party say about this? Oops! I forgot. We don't have one!

[circularman]

I'll just switch to a cheaper heating option like coal.

[nickclashvids]

Maybe his plan is to just buy all the pipelines and delete them?

[komododragon]

Put this to a referendum - direct democracy. If the carbon tax increase passes that, then okay, it's the will of the people.

[JohnMiller-ubdy]

Trudeau you should talk to your buddies, you know the ones who pay you for access to Canada after all they have 7 coal fired power plants being built in Africa plus 13 more on paper for that country. But maybe you dont care about climate after they said they will meet climate standards by 2063, only another 40 years but in the mean time you will make sure that Canada will cover for them and pick up the slack .He must really love China after all why else would he invite China, s military to train in Canada despite objections from our neighbors in the US and why else would he consider letting China establish themselves in our arctic or buy up our oil fields in Alberta . Yep you can rely on Trudeau to protect us but he will always look after himself first .

[corwynwarwaruk]

The environment is much more important than the lives of Canadians.... the planet never experienced any temperature fluctuations before human activity here in Canada under this ambitious plan glaciers will soon return to covering 80% of Canada! Time to take action and bring back the prairie glaciers!

[petercihelka]

Welcome to Incompetence Canada. JT at the helm of the sinking ship, weighed down by the wicked journalist who actually believes she is „clear“!

[jeffersonprice]

Your kids don't even live with you and barely see you justin. They're at sophie and Idris' place.

[ronpeer]

He thinks now is the time to implement a 30% increase in our Cost of Living by implementing this. He’s gotta go and he’s gotta go now.

[eyeswideopen]

The next speech from Trudeau I would like to see is one from his Prison Cell