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To expose the absurd and unrealistic commitments Canadian governments have made regarding human-induced climate change, let’s look at what they’ve done, as opposed to what they said they would do.

In 2009, then prime minister Stephen Harper committed Canada, under the United Nations’ Copenhagen accord, to reducing our industrial greenhouse gas emissions to 17% below 2005 levels by 2020.

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With 2020 one week away, let’s examine where Canada stands on achieving that target — which Prime Minister Justin Trudeau adopted when he came to power — following a decade of Conservative governments (2009-2015) and Liberal governments (2015-2019).

Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions in 2005 were 730 megatonnes annually (one megatonne, or Mt, represents one million tonnes).

A 17% reduction means the Harper-Trudeau target for 2020 is 606 Mt.

According to the last year for which federal government figures are available, Canada emitted 716 Mt in 2017, up 8 Mt from 2016.