Steven Guilbeault
Former prime minister Justin Trudeau and his former climate change cabinet ministers — Catherine McKenna, Jonathan Wilkinson and Steven Guilbeault — on Wednesday met near Parliament Hill. Political operatives behind the scenes, MPs across party lines and journalists were also there. …For a decade the four Liberal politicians and their staffers worked closely to change Canada’s performance and image as a laggard on tackling climate change. …But the evening took on greater significance. Just hours earlier Guilbeault, the activist turned government minister, announced he was resigning as an MP. It was also exactly six months to the day he left Prime Minister Mark Carney’s cabinet, unable to defend the new Liberal government’s “backsliding” on climate change. …The Liberal government led by Prime Minister Carney has suggested that the approach of his predecessor, the Trudeau government, on climate was not working.
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