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Shutter every factory, close down the oilsands, lock up every business. Park every plane, train and automobile. Heck, stop every Canadian from breathing. If Canada were to do that, it would make no appreciable difference in the fight against climate change.

Even Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has admitted that.

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But what if Canada could help the world’s largest polluters cut their greenhouse gas emissions by an appreciable amount?

That could be the equivalent of wiping many Canadas off the map entirely in terms of creating emissions that cause global warming. It would go a long way toward solving the so-called climate emergency.

This idea is the third policy principle of the Conservative Party of Canada’s long-awaited climate action plan entitled A Real Plan to Protect Our Environment, released Wednesday afternoon. It’s an initiative that should have been done a long time ago.

We’ve all heard the expression that when it comes to helping the environment we should “think globally and act locally.” That remains true. But when it comes to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, what really should happen is to think globally and act globally.