Black Box of Federal Climate Policy

There have always been strains between Canadian provinces. Differences in prosperity, language and geography are thorns that tend to irk interprovincial relations, and climate change is emerging as the latest thorn.

The new federal greenhouse gas target of a 17-per-cent reduction below 2005 levels by 2020 (released through the Copenhagen Accord) will actually let national emissions rise compared to 1990. Since the federal government has not yet released its plan for how to meet that target, the provinces are busy calculating what impact these reductions will have ...