Unceded Anishinaabe Algonquin Territories [OTTAWA], September 8, 2025:
Last Friday, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced a series of new measures for Canadian workers and industries most impacted by the US tariffs, targeting amendments to climate regulations and policies in the process. Since then, the Prime Minister and several of his Cabinet members have avoided answering questions about whether Canada will achieve its Paris Agreement climate targets by 2030.
Executive Director of Climate Action Network Canada, Caroline Brouillette warns that dismantling climate policy is a mistaken approach to ensuring Canada’s economic competitiveness:
“In 2025, competitiveness means ensuring that Canadian workers, industries and citizens are fully equipped and well positioned to thrive in markets that are shifting to the technologies of the future.
“Our neighbour to the south has capitulated to the oil and gas industry. Trump may be clinging to technologies of the past while bullying the world into increasing our dependency on volatile and dangerous fossil fuels, but that doesn’t mean Canada should follow suit. We should be paying attention to where the world is actually going. A majority of countries are rapidly scaling up renewable energy and electric-based technology deployment.“After yet another summer of wildfires displacing thousands of Canadians and making our air unbreathable, Canada should not make the grave mistake of caving to an unreliable, anachronistic trading partner backed by fossil fuel lobbyists and broligarchs. Climate policies are not threatening our economy. Rather, these crucial policies – and more – are the necessary building blocks of the future-oriented industrial strategy that will benefit Canadians.
“It is in that spirit that CAN-Rac will be engaging in Canada’s Climate Competitiveness Strategy.”
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Canada’s farthest-reaching network of organizations working on climate and energy issues, Climate Action Network – Réseau action climat (CAN-Rac) Canada is a coalition of close to 200 organizations operating from coast to coast to coast. Our membership brings environmental groups together with trade unions, First Nations, social justice, development, health and youth organizations, faith groups and local, grassroots initiatives.
For more information or to arrange an interview, contact:
Alicia Parker, Communications Coordinator
aliciaparker@climateactionnetwork.ca