OTTAWA (CU)_Do you remember the Greenpeace campaigner who scaled Toronto’s CN Tower back in 2001 to unveil a banner that described Canada and then-American President George W. Bush as “climate killers”. He has now been appointed as Canada’s new Minister of Environment and Climate Change, as part of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s post-election overhaul of the government.
Less than a week ahead of the much-anticipated UN climate summit, former Greenpeace director Steven Guilbeault was put in charge of the country’s climate policy, after PM Trudeau narrowly eked out a win in the twentieth-September elections. Now it appears that the Canadian leader may be intending to reward voters cemented his legacy in what could be a final term, as his administration also released an aggressive emissions target for the fossil fuel industry of Canada, a country which is one of the major oil producers in the world.
“Putting an activist into a role like this… really does signal that the Trudeau government is intensifying…
