Quoted below is a snippet from an article in the Globe & Mail. It discusses the lack of planning for the control of GHG emissions.
With Gerald Butts advising Trudeau we can expect direction without a business plan. A lack of planning in any endeavor spells disaster.
The following is an excerpt from Wikipedia covering Butts. Obviously he was an influencer on McGuinty’s misadventure in to green energy with Ontario Hydro. OH energy policy has resulted in outrageous electricity costs for households & industry. Simply put Ontario Hydro costs are a disaster.
Gerald Butt demonstrates a singular desire for Green, without attention to overall planning. Canada can expect a disaster ,like Ontario Hydro,without an overall plan.
Wikipedia reveals the following on Butts’.....
“In 1999, Butts became a policy director within the Government of Ontario.[8] He was the policy secretary, and later the principal secretary, in the office of the then premier of Ontario, Dalton McGuinty, in Toron[13] Prior to the 2007 election, Butts was a McGuinty insider. After the election, he became McGuinty's principal adviser. As one of his biographical notes describes it, Butts "was intimately involved in all of the government’s significant environmental initiatives, from the Greenbelt and Boreal Conservation plan to the coal phase-out and toxic reduction strategy".[14]
Given the financial disaster of Ontario Hydro,would you trust Gerald Butts to advise Trudeau as to the outcome of a major factor in any planning endeavor?
Trudeau reaffirms pledge to impose GHG emissions caps on Canada’s oil and gas industry
The devil is not only in the details – such as how the federal government will decide which measurements will be used, what emissions will be counted, or whether individual projects or whole companies will be assessed. The confusion is also in how quickly Ottawa will cap emissions and force reductions.
The immediate concern from the oil sands producers headquartered in Calgary is not so much the 2050 goal – or even 2030 – but rather the new nearer-term targets.
As recently as March, former Environment and Climate Change minister Jonathan Wilkinson said he was reluctant to impose 2025 emission targets. But things moved quickly in the months following, with the Trudeau government in April promising to slash Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions by 40-45 per cent, compared to 2005 levels, over the next nine years. The Prime Minister said in large part owing to a carbon price that will hit $170 per tonne by 2030, Canada was in a position to “blow past” its 30-per-cent reduction commitment under the Paris Agreement.
If Canadian citizens do not speak out when we think Governments are misguided, then we are all responsible for our future outcome.