Feds still committed to Paris Accord, Environment Minister McKenna says
TORONTO — As the U.S. flirts with fleeing the Paris climate-change accord, Canada is aligning itself with the world’s other two largest economies to take a global leadership role in the effort to limit greenhouse gas emissions.
Environment Minister Catherine McKenna would only say Wednesday that Canada remains committed to the Paris Accord, refusing to speculate about U.S. President Donald Trump’s musings about withdrawing from the agreement.
“Canada’s just going to keep marching on, like the rest of the world,” McKenna told an event in Toronto.
Trump has said climate change is a “hoax” and campaigned on a promise to withdraw from the Paris agreement. He has apparently been pondering what to do about that promise since the November election.