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Trudeau grilled at climate summit over Canada’s fossil fuel expansion (www.nationalobserver.com)
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[–] luciole@beehaw.org 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Trudeau deserves all the grilling. He’s made promises over promises about curbing emissions all the while pushing for petrol in practice. He’s losing popularity fast domestically too -- but the conservatives are picking up steam to replace him at the next election. Those ones don’t even pretend to care.

[–] aegisgfx877@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah JT is in a tough spot because the liberals are essentially corporate centrists, they will say lots of lefty fluffy stuff to get elected but then their corporate masters (oil companies primarily) wont let them do any of it. And the only viable alternative for Canadians is the conservatives who will definitely trash the environment completely if they get a majority.