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This article was published by The Energy Mix<\/a> on April 21, 2025.<\/em><\/p>\n

By Mitchell Beer<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

With the polls closing in eight days, we took a long weekend road trip to staid, suburban Ottawa. A boisterous Mark Carney rally had the spirit but not the details to get climate back on the agenda.<\/em><\/p>\n

With Canada\u2019s federal election just eight days away, Liberal leader Mark Carney wowed the crowd at a Canada Strong rally in the suburban riding of Nepean, where he\u2019s running for a seat in the House of Commons, pledging to push back and keep pushing against the most immediate existential threat Canada faces.<\/p>\n

So of course The Weekender went on a three-hour road trip on a Sunday afternoon before rewriting this week\u2019s post and\u00a0almost<\/strong>\u00a0renaming our publication The Midnighter. Good thing it\u2019s a long weekend.<\/em><\/p>\n

With\u00a0Never 51<\/a>\u00a0signs in every direction, and a little girl in Easter bunny ears showing her\u00a0#ElbowsUp<\/a>\u00a0while she sat on her dad\u2019s shoulders, Carney\u00a0pitched<\/a>\u00a0his all-hands effort against the rogue regime in the White House. That would be the rolling disaster that began with Donald Trump\u00a0declaring economic warfare<\/a>\u00a0against Canada, followed by repeated threats to annex us as a 51st state\u2014recently confirmed<\/a>\u00a0by press secretary Karoline Leavitt. (Pro tip: Ain\u2019t going to happen.)<\/p>\n

Trump \u201cis\u00a0trying to break us<\/a>\u00a0so that America can own us,\u201d Carney declared. He repeated his now-familiar line that that the wantonly destructive tariffs and snide, expansionist rhetoric from the Oval Office have \u201cchanged forever our relationship with the United States. That old relationship is over.\u201d<\/p>\n

The partisan crowd in Nepean loved it. But it was also the right message to capture the moment of urgency that has united Canadians from coast to coast to coast.<\/p>\n

And it had the tone and many of the elements that we\u2019ll need to bring climate change and its solutions back to the top of the national agenda, whoever forms the next government after the dust settles April 28.<\/p>\n

How to Tackle a Crisis<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Throughout this high-stakes campaign, there\u2019s been a lot of frustration that climate change has scarcely been on the agenda. But if you listened to Carney\u2019s language today on the sovereignty crisis, you could see some of the contours of the climate response we\u2019ve been waiting and working for for decades. Not so much in the specific policy planks, but in the overall approach.<\/p>\n

He stressed that Canadians and our governments are responding to a severe, cascading threat \u201cwith purpose and with hope.\u201d<\/p>\n

He acknowledged the moments when governments have to step up with \u201coverwhelming force\u201d, to \u201clead when the private sector is retreating under anxiety and uncertainty\u201d.<\/p>\n

He cast his lot with practical, pragmatic solutions. \u201cWhen I see something that\u2019s not working, I change it.\u201d<\/p>\n

He warned that the reflexive negativity in some corners of the political spectrum \u201cwon\u2019t pay the rent or mortgage\u201d, and neither will a soaring commitment to\u00a0rescue plastic straws<\/a>. Above all, he said, \u201cdon\u2019t ever\u00a0call Canada stupid<\/a>,\u201d as Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre apparently did in a selected clip from an interview with right wing provocateur Jordan Peterson.<\/p>\n

And Carney painted a picture of a hopeful future where today\u2019s younger generations won\u2019t have to worry about the economic crisis, \u201cbecause we\u2019ll take care of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

A lot of it was standard fare for a political newbie, introducing himself to the constituents he hopes to represent. Like when he credited his parents with raising him to believe in hard work, community, and taking care of each other, his hockey coaches for teaching him to play hard and \u201cstay humble\u201d (a line that some of his past Bank of England staff\u00a0might dispute<\/a>).<\/p>\n

But the speech also pointed to the patterns of thought and action we\u2019ll need when the sovereignty crisis is no longer taking up all the oxygen in the room. We\u2019ll need it even sooner when the next government, whatever its political stripe, looks to the\u00a0tools<\/a>\u00a0in the climate solutions\u00a0toolbox<\/a>\u00a0that can support us in the sovereignty fight.<\/p>\n

So by all means, let\u2019s start by getting our country through the immediate threat that a rampaging U.S. president and his equally delusional henchfolk have brought to our doorstep, make sure we get through it healthy and whole. But we can also build on the principles Carney just articulated and get on with the climate fight we thought we\u2019d signed on for before Trump forced us to change the channel.<\/p>\n

Leaders\u2019 Debate Misses the Moment<\/strong><\/h2>\n

An unsung but possibly important moment in Nepean was when Canadian-British economist and climate policy expert Diana Fox Carney introduced her husband to the crowd, describing him as a \u201cconstant learner\u201d and a good listener. From the back-and-forth during the national leaders\u2019 debate Thursday evening, it\u2019s pretty clear that those will be essential skills for all four of the \u201ccontestants,\u201d as Poilievre called them. Carney included.<\/p>\n

When climate change\u00a0has shown up in this election campaign<\/a>, it\u2019s been at the pivot point between\u00a0two competing plans<\/a>\u00a0for Canada-wide energy corridors.<\/p>\n

Poilievre is promising a new generation of fossil fuel pipelines that no investor is interested in building, aimed at delivering oil and gas to overseas customers that will be well on their way to decarbonizing their energy systems by the time the infrastructure is built. By then, Bloc Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois leader Yves-Fran\u00e7ois Blanchet said Thursday night, Trump will be 90 years old and the immediate threat will be long gone.<\/p>\n

Carney is touting an\u00a0east-west electricity grid<\/a>\u00a0as a \u201cnation-building project\u201d to \u201csecure Canadians\u2019 access to affordable, reliable, clean, Canadian electricity\u201d, supported by a new First and Last Mile Fund to kick-start critical mineral projects and build the clean energy supply chain.<\/p>\n

Poilievre has evidently convinced his supporters that \u201cpre-approved\u201d projects built along a designated national corridor can be conjured up in six months (and there are some\u00a0Indigenous leaders<\/a>\u00a0and constitutional law experts who would like a word). Carney is saying two years, still a lightning fast timeline that concerns\u00a0environmental assessment experts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But there\u2019s another landmine in the Liberal leader\u2019s path.<\/p>\n

In the course of the campaign, he has quite appropriately focused more on clean electricity than fossil fuels. And while he was still running for the Liberal Party leadership, he talked about negotiating a\u00a0carbon border adjustment<\/a>\u00a0with like-minded trading partners, in what would amount to a tariff on high-emitting products.<\/p>\n

But in the leaders\u2019 debate, he still defaulted to\u00a0carbon capture and storage<\/a>\u00a0(CCS) and\u00a0small modular nuclear reactors<\/a>\u00a0as technologies that Canada will need to decarbonize its energy system. It fell to Blanchet, once again, to correct the record.<\/p>\n

\u201cSorry to crash your party,\u201d he said, \u201cbut carbon capture\u00a0is a fairy tale<\/a>.\u201d (He might have added that the CCS industry\u00a0has admitted as much<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

So getting onboard with a real\u00a0least-cost energy strategy<\/a>\u00a0is the first place we\u2019ll need to see Carney the learner and listener step up. The second missed signal is one that none of the four leaders picked up in the debate.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s In It for the Folks Back Home?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The bigger disconnect is the one that could keep climate discussions toward the bottom of the agenda, long after Trump and his acolytes are just a scary nightmare in the rear view mirror.<\/p>\n

A colleague of mine likes to say that not that many people can define net-zero, but everyone knows that they expect to get heating or cooling, lighting or connectivity when they flip a switch. We do need big-picture plans to deliver on that front-line promise.<\/p>\n

But as long as the discussion stays at 30,000 feet\u2014in the trade-offs between different energy corridors, or the important finer points of\u00a0environmental assessment law<\/a>\u2014we\u2019ll lose the essential connection to people in Etobicoke and\u00a0Jasper<\/a>, in\u00a0Burnaby<\/a>, British Columbia and\u00a0Upper Tantallon<\/a>, Nova Scotia, who take the hit when political leaders make the wrong choices on climate and energy.<\/p>\n

Here are just a few of the questions we should have heard in the debate, and that all the leaders and their campaigns should have been able to answer:<\/p>\n

\u2022 In the next grid outage, which party is promising the distributed energy system that will keep my insulin refrigerated and my loved one\u2019s medical device running until the power comes back on? And who\u2019s funding the\u00a0community wraparounds<\/a>\u00a0that help those systems succeed?<\/p>\n

\u2022 How does a national energy corridor (of either flavour) connect to or help reduce the risk of severe storms and flooding across the\u00a0Greater Toronto Area<\/a>, or\u00a0Montreal<\/a>, or\u00a0Atlantic Canada<\/a>, or\u00a0Calgary<\/a>, now and in the future?<\/p>\n

\u2022 How will each party\u2019s platform help Canada\u00a0attract new business investment<\/a>\u00a0and create good, well-paid jobs by guaranteeing an affordable, reliable electricity supply? (Hint: Today\u2019s vulnerable, glitchy grid isn\u2019t always up to the task.)<\/p>\n

\u2022 When will federal and provincial governments help transit agencies offer the high-frequency service that made Brampton, Ontario an\u00a0unlikely success story<\/a>, and stop\u00a0blaming each other<\/a>\u00a0for the agencies\u2019 chronic shortage of operating funds?<\/p>\n

\u2022 And how many more neighbourhoods or towns must we burn to the ground\u2014from\u00a0Fort McMurray<\/a>\u00a0and Jasper to\u00a0Lytton<\/a>, B.C. and\u00a0Enterprise<\/a>, Northwest Territories\u2014before we combine the right preventive measures with a serious, all-hands effort to get our climate pollution under control?<\/p>\n

All of these questions point to climate change as the problem and the energy transition as at least a central part of the solution\u2014as long as we get the transition right. They all fit well with top-line messages about economic security and national sovereignty. And they connect the dots while mostly avoiding the standard \u201cc-words\u201d like \u201cclimate\u201d, \u201ccarbon\u201d, and \u201ccrisis\u201d that have been marginalized and vilified by decades of misinformation, brought to you by a fossil fuel industry that chose not to take action after correctly anticipating the climate crisis in the 1970s.<\/p>\n

This kind of honest, grounded debate won\u2019t magically show up in the next seven or eight days. After we see the election result April 29, there will be some listening and learning to do, whoever wins.<\/p>\n

But whatever the result, we\u2019ll all be better off with the kind of first principles we heard in Nepean today\u2014applied first to Trump\u2019s malignant threats, then to climate change and the energy transition. That\u2019s a test that any national leader of any political stripe should be able to pass.<\/p>\n

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