Trudeau set to lose environmental ally with Trump in White House
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to face an incoming American president who could kill continental climate-change plans, and threaten the Liberals’ domestic agenda that binds environmental gains to economic growth.
Trudeau said he plans to work with Donald Trump on shared interests, but missing from the list of interests was mention of climate change or the environment.
Trump has called global warming a hoax and vowed to “cancel” the Paris climate accord.
The president-elect’s platform commitments to roll back environmental programs and corporate taxes and take a hard stance on trade to reduce the cost of doing business in the United States could force the Liberals to rethink their own agenda, including a promised carbon pricing scheme that the Opposition Conservatives argue would drive up the cost of goods and doing business in Canada.