Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, in his first major climate change speech this year, will reach out on Monday to businesses, indigenous groups and citizens for help in defining his ambitious plan to cut carbon emissions, a senior government official said.
During his campaign for re-election last year, Trudeau pledged to put Canada on a path to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, but the details of how to attain that goal have yet to be hammered out.
The speech comes just a week after Teck Resources withdrew an application to build a C$20.6-billion Frontier oil sands mine in Alberta, citing in part the country’s need to reconcile resource development and climate change.