Official Platform:

• Platform has been released and is available here

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Emission targets:

• A 219.3 Mt (30%) reduction of GHGs below 2005 levels*, to be achieved by 2030

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Cross-sector strategies:

• Scrap the carbon tax implemented in 2019 as well as getting rid of new standards which force the use of cleaner-burning fuels

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• Introduce a system where major GHG emitters will have an emissions cap of 40 kt, which if exceeded, will have to pay into a green investment fund

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• Invest $250 million in a private sector “green technology and innovation fund,” combining public and private funds to support new green companies 

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• Plan on reducing Canadas emissions by 101Mt by 2030 through clean-tech investments

Official platform:

• Platform has been released and is available here 

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Emission targets:

• 438.6 Mt (60%) reduction of GHGs below 2005 levels*, to be achieved by 2030, zero-emissions by 2050

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Cross-sector strategies:

• Introduce revenue neutral taxes through a carbon fee and dividend system and carbon tariffs on countries with lower carbon tax rates

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• Direct the Canada Infrastructure Bank to exclude private profit in infrastructure, invest in climate-proofing infrastructure, with priority given to water system upgrades

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Governing strategies:

• Establish a cross-party inner cabinet to address the climate crisis in a non-partisan manner 

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• Revamp the national trade policy to align with climate change plans, including reducing distances in which food is shipped and increasing local food production

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• Revamp the World Trade Organization to ensure trade is consistent with a global carbon budget, with tariffs assigned based on carbon intensity of imported products

Official platform:

• Platform has been released and is available here

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Emission targets:

• 281 Mt (38.4%) reduction of GHG's below 2005 levels* by 2030 and monitor progress via independent Climate Accountability Office

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Cross-sector strategies:

• Continue carbon pricing, including rebates to households, while reducing breaks given to big polluters

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• Create Climate Bank to help municipalities adapt waste/recycling programs and invest in the tech to help transition away from plastics

Official platform:

• Platform has been released and is available here. Translated and confirmed through collaborations with Juliahna Hill and the office of MP Monique Pauzé.

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Emission targets:

• 219.3 Mt (30%) reduction of GHGs below 2005 levels*, to be achieved by 2030 (Paris Agreement Targets) monitored through a mandatory four-year review clause with the goal of setting more ambitious targets

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• Legislation will contain an accountability mechanism demanding the government to consider climate impacts of all actions, including grants and contributions

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Cross-sector strategies:

• Proposes 'green equalization', a tax reform that exists as a scholarship of excellence based on provincial reduction efforts

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• Provinces with GHG emissions per capita higher than average are taxed and provinces lower than average will receive 90% of the proceeds

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• Green equalization will enable reductions in income taxes for Canadian households as an incentive

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Import and Export:

• Working to end all foreign imported oil by 2030 and rely only on Canadian oil production and refinement

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• Committed to exporting more Canadian aluminum in place of other metals with "higher emissions profiles"​

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• End the ban on tanker traffic in northern BC

 

Consumer fuel options:

• Work with provinces/territories and stakeholders to increase the availability/use of renewable fuels decreasing the carbon intensity of Canada's fuel

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Pipelines:

• In support of new pipelines. Plans to ban foreign funded advocacy groups from using the approvals process to block pipeline projects

Import and Export:

• Plans to be off all foreign imported oil as soon as possible, and off all oil by 2050​

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• Invest in "upgraders" to turn Canadian solid bitumen into gas, diesel, propane and other products for the Canadian market​

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• Bitumen will be phased out between 2030-2035, and by 2050, bitumen is only to be used by the petrochemical industry for plastics, rubber, paint, and other such products​​

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• Pass legislation to keep Canada’s west coast crude oil supertanker-free​​​

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• Reduce the number of tankers moving through Atlantic Canadian waters

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• Work to establish a petroleum and natural gas reserve to secure domestic petroleum supply in the event of shortages​

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Legislative changes:

• Hydraulic fracturing (fracking) operations will be banned 

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• No approval of new pipelines, or coal, oil, or gas drilling or mining, including offshore wells, while existing oil and gas operations will continue on a declining basis

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• Establish Federal Ministry of Energy Transition Plan to transition from a fossil fuel based economy to one based on renewable energy

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Pipelines:

• Not in support of a new pipeline anywhere and plans to cancel the Trans Mountain pipeline. Instead supports investments into Canadian railway services as a method to transport raw bitumen​

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Fossil Fuel Subsidies:

• Remove all fossil fuels from our electricity grid by 2030, ending fossil fuel imports and only using domestic sources while eliminating all subsidies​

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• End all subsidies and supports to the fossil fuel industries, and redirect the money to the Canadian Grid Strategy and renewable energy transition

Import and Export:

• Prioritize domestic upgrading and refining instead of shipping our raw resources and jobs to other countries

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• Reform Export Development to focus on support for Canadian sustainable energy projects, rather than the petroleum industry​​

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Legislative Changes:​​

• Does not support fracking in Canada

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Methane Reduction:

• Promote methane reduction via real-time monitoring and leakage detection systems

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Pipelines:

• Not in support of the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion project

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• In support of liquefied natural gas (LNG) pipelines

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Fossil Fuel Subsidies:

• Will immediately fulfill Canada’s G-20 commitment to eliminate fossil fuel subsidies and redirect the funds to low carbon initiatives

 

Import and Export:

• Opposes any increase in oil transportation across Québec

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Pipelines:

• Announced that they will not support the development of any new pipelines in Canada

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Fossil Fuel Subsidies

• End all fossil fuel subsidies

ZEV and ULEV Research:

• Work with provinces, territories and industry experts to develop more sophisticated batteries for electrical vehicles

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• Use the “Green Patent Credit” to invest in green alternative tech for transport

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• Work to deal with the environmental challenges of recycling used batteries

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Consumer Incentives:

• Deploy the necessary charging or refuelling infrastructure to accommodate a changing fleet

Public Transport:

• Investing $600 million in 2020-2021, rising to $720 million by 2023 to develop regional rail networks (VIA Rail) and strengthen rail connections between regions

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• Create green transportation (e.g. VIA Rail) and energy infrastructure corridors in key regions

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• Increase federal funding for pedestrian, cycle, and car-sharing infrastructure in towns and cities

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• Require all passenger ferries to convert to electric or hybrid systems by 2030

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Consumer Incentives:

• Expand charging stations for electric vehicles, including all parking lots associated with federal facilities 

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• Exempt new and used electric and ZEV from federal sales tax

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• Create a national cycling and walking infrastructure fund to help support zero emissions active transportation

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Commercial Freight:

• Support the trucking industry by implementing add-on generators to reduce idling in the maintenance of refrigeration

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• Ensure the appropriate use of trucking in a more efficient, rail-based intermodal system

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Commitments:

• All new cars will be electric by 2030, and by 2040, all internal combustion engine vehicles will be replaced with electric vehicles

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• Maximize emissions reductions in all transportation through sustainably produced biofuels

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• Develop a Green Freight Transport program to address GHG emissions in partnership with the freight industry, shipping companies, and delivery businesses

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• Paris framework and international tax for aviation and shipping fuels for the Global climate fund introduced into the Paris framework

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Legislative changes:

• Ban the sale of internal combustion engine passenger vehicles by 2030

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ZEV and ULEV Research:

• Invest in research for development of ZEVs, manufacturing of batteries, energy storage and alternative fuels
   

Public Transport:

• Expand bus service by working with local bus operators and expand VIA Rail’s mandate to run zero-emissions buses

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• Invest $6.5 billion in clean transportation (zero-emissions buses and electric trains) with support for fare-free transit

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• Support creating high-frequency rail along the Quebec-Windsor corridor

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• Implement a Canadian cycling strategy

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Consumer Incentives:

• Produce more zero-emission vehicles in Canada, and provide $5,000 federal purchase incentive, with no federal sales tax for working families

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• Grow ZEV incentives in value to $15,000 and targeting them to made-in-Canada vehicles only – with the goal of 100% of new automotive sales by 2040

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• Expand fast charging networks for ZEVs (use federal government buildings) and cover installation cost of installing a charger at home, up to $600

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Commercial Freight:

• Make commercial truck freight transportation cleaner, through new technology and use of zero-emissions trucks, made in Canada wherever possible

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Government Fleet:

• Federal government vehicles will all be EV, made-in-Canada vehicles wherever possible, by 2025

Public Transport:

• Demands a public inquiry committee to strengthen regulations on rail transport, including requirements of municipalities to inform in real time the quantity and type of materials on circulation

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Consumer Incentives:

• Discounts on electric and hybrid vehicles, with additional discounts for lower income households or if the purchase of an environmentally friendly vehicle removes a particularly polluting vehicle off the road

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Commercial Freight:

• Incentives to purchase research in heavy and commercial vehicles

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Government Fleet:

• Complete replacement of federal vehicles to green vehicles

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Commitments:

• Introduce a zero emission bill which will require every vehicle manufacturer to sell a minimum number of ZEVs based on the number of gasoline cars sold

Energy Infrastructure:

• Plans to get clean energy to more areas of Canada by utilizing the interconnectivity of electrical grids

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• Aim to create a “national energy corridor” for Canadian oil, gas, electricity and telecommunications

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• Repeal Bill C-69, a bill to revamp environmental assessment of energy projects

 

Industry:

• Force major emitters to document emissions and come up with a plan to reduce them

 

Large Scale Strategies:

• Use a "green patent credit” for companies patenting green tech, reducing business tax rates to 5% for income generated from said patents promoting the development of green technologies

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• Remove GST from home heating bills

Energy Infrastructure:

• By 2030, 100% of Canada's electricity will come from renewable sources and provincial electrical grids will be interconnected

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• Will stop the development of the site C dam in BC

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• Will be harnessing abandoned deep oil wells for geothermal energy using workers who drilled the wells to manage the renewable energy generation

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• Assist in phasing out and decommissioning nuclear facilities as well as sequestering associated radioactive wastes

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• Supports replacing coal in AB with wind and solar energy 

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Industry:

• End all subsidies and supports to the mining, nuclear and coal industries in Canada

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• Work with provinces, territories, and industry to ensure that all mining operations are insured for environmental liabilities

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• Set legal emission limits for industries that decline over time, with penalties for exceeding those limits

Energy Infrastructure:

• Invest $3.5 billion in carbon-free electricity by 2030/100% non-emitting electricity by 2050 and interconnect provincial power grids

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Industry:

• Work with industry and labor to develop a Low Carbon Industrial Strategy to support Canada’s industries through low carbon transformation

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Large Scale Strategies:

• The Climate Bank will boost made-in-Canada manufacturing of renewable energy components and tech with loans for factory re-tooling

Energy Infrastructure:

• Will offer subsidies for energy saving systems

Forest:

• Direct the Canadian Forest Service to investigate the use of tech to improve early detection of wildfires and better predict fire behaviour

 

Marine:

• Maintain support for watershed protection in the Great Lakes and Lake Winnipeg and restore the Lake Simcoe Clean-Up Fund

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• Work with provinces and municipalities to end raw sewage dumping into marine or freshwater ecosystems

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• Support completion of the Canadian Wetland Inventory, totalling $15 million over 3 years

 

Waste Goals:

• Will work with producers to minimize plastic packaging, and work with international partners to combat plastic in oceans

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• Ban the export of plastic waste unless it can be showed that it will be recycled at its destination, with tough penalties for violations

Forest:

• Will establish fire breaks and cancel purchase of F35s to instead buy water bombers to protect communities from forest fires

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• Using the Green Infrastructure fund, launch national program to restore buffer zones along waterways  and carbon sinks through tree-planting and soil rebuilding 

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• Mandate the switch to bio-diesel for forestry equipment

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• Renew the National Forest Strategy, focused on restoring climate resilient forests and carbon sinks in partnership with Indigenous Peoples

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• Increase forest fire preparedness, including purchase of water bombers readily available for high-risk zones

 

Marine:

• Restore the Navigable Waters Protection Act as it was prior to 2006

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• Re-establish the Marine Mammals Contaminants Monitoring Program within the Department of Fisheries and Oceans

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• Re-instate federal funding to the Experimental Lakes Area to assist the Ontario government and the International Institute for sustainable development

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• Mandate the switch to bio-diesel for fishing equipment​​

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• Implement an Extended Producer Responsibility program for companies making or selling synthetic fishing gear by 2021 to reduce plastic waste ​

 

Waste Goals:

• Setting a goal for zero waste in Canada

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• Require an increasing percentage of recycled plastic feedstock in durable plastic products

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• Phase out Canada's export of solid waste to other countries, requiring all products to be fully recyclable 

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• Ban production, distribution, and sale of all unnecessary petroleum-based single-use plastics 

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• By 2021, fund proper solid waste management systems in Indigenous and Artic communities

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• By 2021, require all new washing machines sold in Canada to have a cleanable filter to capture micro-fibres and prevent them from entering water systems

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Research and Protection Agencies:

• Add pollution prevention to the CEPA mandate and establish a task force to reduce pollution in the Great Lakes

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• $150 million for adding knowledgeable scientific staff to Environment Canada, Health Canada, and Fisheries/Oceans

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• Re-establish the post of Ambassador for the Environment and Sustainable Development

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• Re-establish the adaptation research group and restore funding to climate science through the Canadian Climate Forum

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• Protect a minimum of 30 percent of freshwaters, oceans, and land by 2030

 

Agriculture:

• Mandate the switch to bio-diesel for agricultural equipment

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• Implement national standards for reducing the use of nitrogen fertilizers in crop agriculture

 

Environmental Rights:

• Support the right to a healthy environment via support of CEPA

   

Marine:

• Invest in research for freshwater protection

 

Waste Goals:

• Ban single-use plastics across Canada by 2022, recycle those already in circulation and hold companies responsible for the entire life cycle of plastics

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• Develop a national strategy to reduce food waste by connecting communities to farmers

 

Research and Protection Agencies:

• Invest $400 million in forest management/reforestation, waste reduction, and protecting 30% of our land, freshwater, and oceans by 2030

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• Develop urban national parks and sustainable re-foresting efforts, as well as growing the Indigenous Guardians Program

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• Increase access to low carbon tools and technology to adapt to climate-induced weather changes and other impacts of climate change

 

Agriculture:

• Work with Canadian farmers to promote land-management techniques to increase carbon sequestration and reduce GHG emissions

 

Environmental Rights:

• Supports the right to a healthy environment via the Environmental Bill of Rights

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• Create federal Environmental Bill of Rights and national freshwater strategy to protect our waterways under international agreement

 

Water Rights:

• Intends to lift all boil-water notices by 2021

Agriculture:

• Will offer financial and scientific support for the elimination and immediate ban of bee-killing pesticides (e.g. neonicotinoids), involving a grace-period for farms to transition from such pesticides

Buildings:

• $900 million per year green home tax credit (GHTC) to help people pay for clean tech in their homes

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• Homeowners will be eligible for 20% tax credits up to $2850 yearly for home energy efficiency retrofits

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• Establish a voluntary net-zero ready building standard; encourage greater use of wood and low-carbon cement in construction

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Community Integration:

• Help incorporate traditional knowledge into efforts to address impacts of climate change.

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• Work with Indigenous peoples to on emission mitigation and green technology adaptation projects. 

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Green Jobs:

• Create a single online hub for green tech companies to find employees and resources from public and private sectors

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Knowledge Translation:

• Plans to implement lower tax rates on made-in-Canada climate-friendly inventions to support research and development

Buildings:

• Launch a massive energy retrofit of residential, commercial, and institutional , with a new building code to require net-zero emission standards by 2030

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• Finance building retrofits and green technologies through grants, zero-interest loans, and repayments based on energy savings

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Community Integration:

• Fund “Green Cities” initiatives to reduce GHG emissions, conserve electricity and water as well as expand public and alternative transit solutions

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• Replace the CSIF with Municipal super-funds of $500 million/fund/year to which municipalities can apply to support “Green City” initiatives

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• Form partnerships with Indigenous peoples and will provide economic opportunities to increase renewable energy use on their lands

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• Enhance the federal Youth Employment and Skills Strategy by creating Community and Environment Service Corps, providing $1 billion annually to municipalities to hire Canadian youth​

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• Commit $100 million annually for four years to create Indigenous-led projected and conserved areas

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Green Jobs:

• Supports all 10 recommendations made by the Force of Just Transition for Coal Power Workers and Communities. See the final report and recommendations here

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• The just transition plan includes harnessing transferable skills of oil and gas workers through investments into retraining, apprenticeships, and pension bridging programs

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• Creation of 4 million jobs for tradespeople through retrofitting buildings

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• Establish a Canadian Sustainable Generations Fund for trades, apprenticeships, and education required for the transition to a green economy 

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Knowledge Translation:

• Restore funding of climate research for Canadian government and universities

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• Enhance and establish climate-related funding for research and commit to full implementation of Scientific Integrity Policies for all government departments

 Health:

• Wants to integrate human health into Canada's climate commitment

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Buildings:

• All federal buildings and all new buildings will be net carbon neutral by 2030, and there will be large scale retrofits for all existing buildings

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• Retrofitting all houses in Canada by 2050, with half of retrofits completed by 2030 via access to low-interest loans repayable through energy savings

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• Provide support for retrofits for low-income Canadians, Indigenous communities and local municipalities for retrofitting buildings

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Community Integration:

• Partner with Indigenous and northern communities to move off diesel with renewable micro-grids & transmission connections

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• Invest $350 million to support Indigenous rights, environmental protection efforts and control over their own territory

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• Ensure First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples are partners in federal climate change mitigation efforts and are involved in decision-making

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• Create a framework enshrining Community Benefits Agreements in infrastructure projects allowing communities to define what they need

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Green Jobs:

• Invest $2.5 billion to create at least 300,000 jobs, in 4 years, helping communities adapt to climate change and reduce emissions

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• Plan to transition Alberta oil and gas workers to the new renewable energy source economy 

Community Integration:

• Will introduce more environmental sovereignty, no longer allowing Ottawa to impose pipelines, airports, or cell towers in Québec without consent

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• Redraft a bill giving Québec government the power to accept or reject projects under federal jurisdiction that relate to land-use planning and environmental protection