The best candidates talk to fossil fuel

As the threat of US President Donald Trump is headed by the Federal Electoral Program of Canada, the issue of the country’s contribution to global warming is largely obscured.

Two main applicants push plans for new energy infrastructure as the country seeks to cancel its dependence on the United States.

Liberals Mark Karnya promise to make Canada global superpower in both ordinary and green energy. The Conservatives under Piera Pyulieur want to cheer the oil and gas sector and get rid of the industrial carbon tax.

This is a big shift from the 2021 elections, when the environment headed a list of voter problems.

In this vote between the two main parties, the only opinion was that Canada should quickly move to the green economy, and in June of the same year the law on pure zero was passed.

Such a sense of unity is long gone.

Karni, who became the leader of the Liberals and the Prime Minister in early March, has a long performance as an international climate change champion.

In addition to the fact that he was the governor of the Bank of England, he was a special UN Messenger on climatic actions and finances and was co -chairman of the Glasgow fan alliance for Net Zero, one of the great COP26 results.

However, his first rally as the Prime Minister was abolishing the consumer penalty.

The tax – the climate policy of the Liberals, which was introduced in 2019 and delivered an additional fee to consumers using coal, oil and gas products.

It was unpopular, and for the conservatives it was an easy goal of guilt for the growth of life in recent years. Poilievre even sought to draw his opponent as a “carbon tax”.

Some observers believe that the cancellation of the tax was a reasonable political step, others believe that this is a mistake.

“By making one of your first steps by removing the carbon value, you accept this story that climate change is worth too much money and not for us, if, in fact, it is not so,” said Catherine Abareu, director of the International Climate Policy and a member of the Clean Consultative body.

“I think there is a missed opportunity to set up new narratives in the elections.”

Carney’s electoral step on energy is to turn Canada into “leading world superpowers both in pure and ordinary energy.”

He emphasizes his pragmatic approach, and his company talks about rapidly tracking projects on green energy and encouraging green transport and buildings without giving too much details. He also urged to invest in technology such as the carbon.

There are other important factors that helped cool part of the climate.

Opinion polls show that since the end of 2023, Canada’s concern about the climate has fallen when the trouble for rising prices, energy and housing costs came to the fore.

The war in Ukraine has also focused on the country’s wealth of natural resources in the field of oil, gas and critical minerals.

“We had a parade of geopolitical allies that appeared on our doorstep, saying that we want your rocks, we want Canada to be a geopolitically safe supplier of basic resources, instead of Russia,” said Mark Winfield, Professor at the Faculty of Environmental and City Changes at the York University.

“And this created another type of dynamics in all this that was not present in the previous election.”

Pierre Paylyovre is a man who seeks to replace Karni as the Prime Minister.

He works on life costs and stands for a tougher law enforcement policy and what he considers “awakened” cultural issues.

Poilievre, the party of which has a strong voter base in the country’s wealthy regions, pushes for a large expansion of the oil and gas industry and deleting tax on industry carbon.

While it remained dense, whether it supports the non-focused goals of Canada, he claimed that for the world it would be better if India and other Asian countries replaced the “dirty coal” more canadian oil and gas.

According to Professor Winfield, conservative proposals for increasing oil and gas may be attractive to voters, even if the production of production does not withstand close attention.

He told the BBC that it was more “at the main level as a response to Trump, unlike any real thinking, what the consequences for the climate and whether it is economically viable.”

Regardless of the climate and energy, the key issue in the minds of voters in this election is that the leader is best dealing with the US president.

This is especially important when it comes to the oil and gas industry.

Canada is the largest foreign oil supplier in America, about 90% of the raw material production to the south of the border, and the impact of energy tariffs may well be catastrophic for jobs and economics.

“Our relations with the United States have changed completely,” Carney said last week in the first of two election discussions.

“Pipelines are a national security problem for us.”

Such concern, depending on the United States, has revived the interest in pipelines that will move oil and gas from the western provinces, where they are mostly produced, to the east, where they could be exported to new foreign markets.

A preliminary attempt called Energy East Pipeline was postponed in 2017 because of a number of factors, including severe opposition from some regions of the country and regulatory obstacles.

In this company, both liberals and conservatives promised to quickly track “energy corridors”, though Karni turned into support for pipelines, Knowing that they are deeply unpopular with environmentalists.

It tries to pass the thin border between Canada’s defense as a nation, threatened by Trump and take action on a warming climate.

Canada Canada’s insurance reported that in 2024, the weather -related insurance losses, in the weather -related losses related to the $ £ 7.1 billion), in the three of the 2023.

And although all two election voters advocate the main role for fossil fuels in the Canada economy, this approach will face the country’s climatic commitments.

Jew-France Blanchett, the leader of the Quebec bloc, the federal party based on Quebec, accused the couple of “climate change”.

“I’m sorry that you crashed with the party guys, but you tell fairy tales” about pure oil and gas, he said in the debate last week.

Canada promised at the international stage to stop carbon emissions by 40-45% by 2030 based on the 2005 level.

As of 2023, carbon release decreased by only 8.5%.

Anyone who wins the election will have a real problem for a square circle.

The Canadians go to the polls on April 28.