{"id":27622,"date":"2019-11-22T13:36:01","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T18:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/?p=27622"},"modified":"2025-07-02T04:12:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:12:37","slug":"going-into-cop25-justin-trudeau-needs-to-remember-these-5-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/story\/27622\/going-into-cop25-justin-trudeau-needs-to-remember-these-5-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Going into COP25, Justin Trudeau Needs to Remember These 5 Things"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cI see this as their chance for a do-over…That the election has turned into a teaching moment for this liberal government. Watch for all the ways in which they try to fix what they heard was wrong with the first one.\u201d<\/em><\/p>– Susan Delaware, Ottawa columnist and bureau chief with the Star, on CBC\u2019s Here and Now, November 20, 2019<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n

They certainly heard from all of you <\/em>the day after Justin Trudeau was re-elected Prime Minister. Thousands of you made phone calls, sent emails and left social media messages for Justin Trudeau during our SPAM-A-THON<\/a><\/strong>. Together we sent a strong message to the now minority Liberal Government: declaring a Climate Emergency and then approving the expansion of a pipeline <\/strong><\/a>the very next day isn\u2019t good enough. Acknowledging that we are in a Climate Emergency is merely the first step; the second step is to act like it<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n

With COP25<\/strong><\/a> just around the corner, we need Canada to assert strong climate leadership. We need the Trudeau government and his freshly anointed Cabinet<\/strong><\/a> to demonstrate a Climate Emergency response plan that responds to the scale of the crisis. A plan that:<\/p>\n\n

1)<\/strong> Is aligned with the best available science, so will eliminate all carbon emissions before 2050 to avoid the worst effects of climate change.<\/p>\n\n

2) <\/strong>Has targets for 2025 and 2030 consistent with getting there, and independent reporting on whether we are on track.  <\/p>\n\n

3) <\/strong>Ensures everyone in my community has a good job, because the big changes we need to make to solve the climate crisis can also address its twin scourge of growing inequality. <\/p>\n\n

4) <\/strong>Takes back the power and stop letting Big Oil companies influence government decisions. Your policies must be for the people, not the millionaires. This begins with an end to subsidies to fossil fuels and the expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure, including the cancellation of the Transmountain expansion pipeline.<\/p>\n\n

5)<\/strong> Stops putting extractive industries interests before Indigenous rights. The government should implement free, prior and informed consent for all indigenous communities coast to coast to coast.<\/p>\n\n

If they are seeing their re-election as a chance for a \u2018do-over\u2019, an opportunity to listen to those who raised concerns over their last term in office, as Susan Delaware has suggested<\/strong><\/a>, then let\u2019s give them something to listen to<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n

The global climate strike that saw nearly a million Canadians take to the streets to demand action has not gone unnoticed. People like you who continue to raise your voices across Canada is keeping the Climate Emergency at the centre of the cultural conversation<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

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The Oxford Word of the Year is \u2026 CLIMATE EMERGENCY.

\u2018Climate emergency\u2019 is defined as \u2018a situation in which urgent action is required to reduce or halt climate change and avoid potentially irreversible environmental damage resulting from it.\u2019https:\/\/t.co\/JLepdcgt0U<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/UKJqpa2KAJ<\/a><\/p>— Oxford Languages (@OxLanguages) November 20, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote>