The best candidates talk about fossil fuel while the climate agenda slides

Since the threat posed by US President Donald Trump leads the federal election agenda in Canada, the country’s contribution to global warming has overwhelmed.

The main competitors pay plans for the new energy infrastructure as the country seeks to get rid of its dependence on the United States.

Liberal Mark Carney is to make Canada a global superpower in both traditional and green energy. Conservatives, under Pierre Poilviri, want to stimulate the oil and gas sector and cancel the industrial carbon tax.

It is a major transformation from the 2021 elections, when the environment topped the voter fears list.

In this vote, there was a consensus between the two main parties that Canada should be moved quickly to the green economy, with the law of net zero emissions in June of that year.

This feeling of loneliness has ended long ago.

Carney, who became the leader of the liberals and prime minister in early March, recorded a busy registry as an international climate change.

In addition to being the Governor of England, he was a special envoy for the United Nations in work and financing, and he was the head of the Financial Alliance in Glasgow of Net Zero, one of the great results of COP26.

However, his first act as prime minister is to cancel the carbon consumer.

The tax – the distinctive climate policy of liberal government – was offered in 2019, and set additional fees on consumers who use coal, oil or gas products.

It has been popular, and for conservatives it has become an easy goal to blame for the high cost of living in recent years. Poilievere even sought to draw his competitor as “Carney Carney Carbon Carney”.

Some observers believe that canceling the tax was a smart political step, while others feel it was a mistake.

“By taking one of your first moves to remove the carbon price, you accept this narration that the climate change policy costs us a lot of money and is not good for us, in fact, this is not the case,” said Catherine Abyo, director of the International Policy Center for International Policy and a member of the clear and clear consultative body.

“I think there is a lost opportunity here to put a new narrative framework on this in the elections.”

The stadium is in the Karenie Energy Elections to convert Canada into a “leading superpower in both clean and traditional energy.”

He focuses on his practical approach, and his campaign talks about fast -tracking green energy projects and encourage transportation and green buildings, without providing many details. He also called for investment in technologies such as carbon capture.

There are other important factors that helped cool some Carney Carney speech.

Opinion polls indicate that since late 2023, Canadian concerns about climate have decreased with fears of high prices, and energy and housing costs have appeared in the foreground.

The war in Ukraine also focused on the abundant natural resources in the country in oil, gas and critical minerals.

“We had a procession of geopolitical allies who appear on the doorstep of our door, saying, we want your rocks, we want Canada to be the provider of geological primary resources commodities, instead of Russia,” said Mark Winfield, a professor at the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University in Toronto.

“This has created another type of dynamism in all of this, which was not present in the previous elections.”

Pierre Poiliver is the man who seeks to replace Carney as Prime Minister.

It works on the cost of living issues, and defends strict policies on the law and order and what it considers to “wake” cultural issues.

Poilievre, whose party has a strong voter base in energy -rich areas in the country, is pushing for the great expansion of the oil and gas industries and the removal of carbon tax on the industry.

While he remained tight if he supports the Net-Zero goals in Canada, he has argued that it would be better for the world if India and other Asian countries are to replace “dirty charcoal” with clean Canadian oil and gas.

According to Professor Winfield, conservative proposals to enhance oil and gas are likely to be attractive to voters, even if the advantages of expanding production did not stop scrutiny.

He told BBC that he was more than “at the level of principle as a reaction to Trump, in contrast to any real thinking through what are the effects of the climate, and whether this is economical.”

Regardless of the climate or energy, the main question in the minds of voters in these elections is any leader who is the best situation to deal with the harsh American president.

This is especially important when it comes to the oil and gas industry.

Canada is the largest foreign resource in America for oil, with about 90 % of raw production to the south of the border, and the impact of the energy tariff may be catastrophic on jobs and economics.

“Our relationship with the United States has completely changed,” Carney said last week in the first two discussions in the elections.

“The pipelines are the problem of national security for us.”

This concern about relying on the United States has revived the attention of pipelines that will transport oil and gas from Western provinces, as they are mainly produced to the east, where they can be exported to new external markets.

A previous attempt called Energy East was suspended in 2017 due to a number of factors, including fierce opposition from some regions of the country and organizational obstacles.

In this campaign, the liberals and conservatives promised to track the fast “energy passages”, although Carne He dismantled his support for pipelines, Knowing that they are not deeply popular with environmental scientists.

He is trying to walk on a thin line between defending Canada as a nation under his threat from Trump, and taking measures in the warming climate.

The Insurance Office in Canada stated that in 2024, there were 8.5 billion dollars (6.1 billion dollars; 4.6 billion pounds) in a three -fetal fold of ahead of the year 2023.

While all residents of the elections invite a major role for fossil fuel in the economy of Canada, this approach will clash with climate obligations in the country.

Yves Francois Blanchett, leader of Bloc Québécois, a federal party based in Quebec, accused the couple of being in a “denial of climate change”.

He said in discussions last week: “I am sorry to destroy party comrades, but you are telling fairy tales” about clean oil and gas.

Canada promised to the international theater to reduce carbon emissions by 40-45 % by 2030, based on levels in 2005.

As of 2023, carbon output decreased by only 8.5 %.

Everyone who wins in the elections will have a real challenge to that district.

Canadians go to the polls on April 28.