Nice to see Quebec Premier Jean Charest taking on Harper over Ottawa's dismal climate change performance. We just put out a small report summarizing Harper's positioning, coupled with a new take on their "just visiting" attack ads.
But, it would be nice to see Charest more explicitly drawing the connection between proposed pollution growth in the tar sands and what this means for Quebec (and Ontario) manufacturers under a nation-wide absolute cap on emisisons that we know we must adopt.
In short, if one sector is growing emissions under a hard cap, others are getting squeezed out. So, if reports about Harper giving special treatment to the tar sands are true - and nothing he or his Environment Minister Jim Prentice has said has given actual proof it's not - then Premier Charest should be even more agressive in protecting his province's interests. Indeed, though, that goes for all the other premiers too.
Matt Price
Program Manager
Environmental Defence
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