While Prime Minister Mark Carney acknowledged in a year-end interview with CBC that former prime minister Justin Trudeau’s climate change plan was a $200-billion flop, the roots of that failure predate Trudeau.
They go back to then-prime minister Jean Chretien signing onto the United Nations Kyoto accord in 1998, committing Canada to economy-killing climate targets which – as top Chretien aide Eddie Goldenberg later acknowledged – the Liberals knew they couldn’t achieve.
