Clean up our pollution messes
This election, taking responsibility for cleaning up our pollution is once again a ballot issue. With the consumer carbon price gone, attention is shifting to whether it’s reasonable to expect industrial polluters to help protect our future by cleaning up their messes today.
Most Canadians want to take responsibility for protecting our kids from pollution. Politicians betray this family value when they propose to end all pollution pricing, because it forces our kids and future generations to pay even more dearly for the messes we leave them. Dropping pollution pricing also undermines efforts to resist US threats with diversified trade and economic countermeasures.
