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In 2017, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau continued to portray man-made climate change as an imminent, existential threat to humanity, while doing little to lower Canada’s industrial greenhouse gas emissions linked to global warming.

The disconnect between the Liberals’ apocalyptic rhetoric on climate change, most often in the pronouncements of Environment Minister Catherine McKenna, and their lack of meaningful action, actually began before they won power in 2015.

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In opposition, Trudeau mocked former prime minister Stephen Harper’s emission reduction targets as international embarrassments. Once in office, McKenna described them as the floor of what the Liberals would achieve.

In fact, Harper’s targets of reducing Canada’s emissions to 17% below 2005 levels by 2020 and 30% by 2030, became Trudeau’s targets.

Today, the United Nations — the organization Trudeau made these commitments to — says Canada will miss these targets “by a wide margin.” Unless it buys billions of dollars worth of carbon offsets annually on global carbon markets.