The environment ministers of Alberta and Ontario sent a letter to Ottawa ahead of a July 2 and 3 conference between provincial and federal leaders in Yellowknife asking for the repeal of a number of Trudeau-era federal climate rules they say are slowing Canada’s economic growth.
The letter, sent by Alberta’s Rebecca Schulz and Ontario’s Todd McCarthy, says that the Impact Assessment Act, emissions cap for the oil and gas sector, clean electricity regulations, and areas of the Species at Risk Act are preventing Canada from moving ahead economically and have no “quantifiable benefits to the natural environment.”
“We are hopeful that this new federal government will move away from policies and legislation that undermine competitiveness, delay project development, and disproportionately harm specific provinces and territories,” reads the letter, sent to the federal Minister of Environment and Climate Change Julie Dabrusin….