We all agree that our climate matters but it's not enough to just agree. As Prime Minister, @JustinTrudeau has failed to act.

@JonathanWNV and Justin Trudeau promised us "ambition" six years ago.

Let's see what they did instead. 🧵 1/5
Trudeau promised to reduce emissions.

They're up. And they keep going up.

Justin Trudeau is growing Canada's emissions faster than any other G7 nation. 2/5

nationalobserver.com/2021/06/01/new…
Trudeau promised to phase out fossil fuel subsidies.

Instead, he gives billions in government hand-outs - our money - to Canada's biggest polluters. 3/5

ledevoir.com/politique/cana…

cbc.ca/news/politics/…
And now - Trudeau is setting climate targets less ambitious than Joe Biden's.

Every year, we fall further behind in the fight against climate change. As a parent, that scares me.

People have had enough of Justin Trudeau's empty climate promises. 4/5

climateactionnetwork.ca/2021/04/22/civ…
Justin Trudeau has failed us on climate change.

Only Jagmeet Singh and the NDP will deliver real climate action, end Trudeau's fossil fuel giveaways and make big polluters pay their fair share. 5/5

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More from @avilewis

9 Sep
Yesterday: I pointed out the Big Oil connections of some supporting @JustinTrudeau's climate plan.

Today: @SethDKlein - my bro-in-law & renowned progressive climate policy expert - wrote a detailed and devastating critique of the modelling behind that fatally flawed plan.🧵
Tonight at the leaders debate, @JustinTrudeau will pretend that a couple recent op-eds from economists means that their party has the blessing and support of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (@IPCC_CH).

But that’s simply not true.
The NDP has a better climate plan than the Liberals - one that would kickstart what the @IPCC_CH actually calls for: "rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society." #climateemergency
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14 Aug
The #NDP platform #ReadyForBetter dropped this week, and there are some powerful climate policies that I'm excited to run on.

The party has been listening to big ideas coming out of the climate movement and it shows.

A 🧵...
The Civilian Climate Corp could fix youth unemployment with jobs jobs jobs:

🌊 restoring wetlands, coasts & other habitats
🌲 planting millions of trees
🏞️ healing the land and storing carbon

Indigenous leadership & knowledge is key to the success of any land-based program.
Legislating multi-year carbon budgets - both sectoral & national - is absolutely necessary to bend the curve on emissions.

The Trudeau Liberals - when they're not doling out💰💰💰 to Big Oil - relies on market incentives. Totally not working. Time for hard caps.
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