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May 23, 2019
MEDIA RELEASE: Citizen Lobbyists Bring Non Partisan Message to Solve the Most Urgent Challenge of Our Time
May 23, 2019Read moreLawyer Josh Ginsberg from Ecojustice walked the volunteers through the details of the Saskatchewan Ruling and how the federal government’s Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act is constitutionally valid. Two key rulings were that the “GHG pricing is regarded as essential” and “Climate change is doubtless an emergency in the…
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February 28, 2018
MEDIA RELEASE: Timid Budget Recipe for Climate Catastrophe
February 28, 2018Read moreThe window to address the climate crisis is rapidly closing. The 2017 Budget pointed Canada in the right direction but the 2018 Budget is timid and does little to bend Canada’s emissions curve. Recent polls should give this government courage to do more for climate action. Extending the rising…
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March 24, 2017
MEDIA RELEASE: Canada Budget 2017 Installment #1: The Trend To Clean Energy Is Irreversible
March 24, 2017Read moreCO2 is rising faster now than in other time in human history. Going forward, Canada and the world needs a carbon price of at least $150 tonne by 2030, elimination of fossil fuel subsidies, and border tax adjustments to level the playing field with countries that don’t have…
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March 23, 2016
CCL Canada is Working Towards a National Carbon Price by 2017
March 23, 2016Read moreCCL Canada volunteers are creating the political will so that in Canada’s Budget 2017, we start relying less on the “temporary” income taxes PM Robert Borden enacted in 1917 and more on pollution taxes. 2017 is also an auspicious year because it will be Canada’s “150th birthday” and 100…