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OTTAWA — Close to the anniversary of a major United Nations climate-change agreement in Paris last December, the year-old Liberal government seems poised to go back on one of its climate-related election promises, says a report from a U.K.-based think-tank.

After recommitting himself to ending fossil-fuel subsidization at the G20 leaders’ summit in China two months ago, though offering no timeline, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau doesn’t appear to be “living up” to his promises, the report from InfluenceMap says.

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Canada “has proved reluctant to remove subsidies already in place,” it continues, even introducing a new subsidy to support the Pacific NorthWest liquid natural gas pipeline approved in mid-October.

That gives Canada a score of C- on the report card, which assessed G7 countries and the EU — worse than France (B-), but better than the U.K. (D), the U.S. (D+), Germany (D+), Japan (D-), and Italy (E).