Climate panel presses for federal cap-and-trade system
Thursday, April 16th, 2009
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Bill Curry, The Globe and Mail
April 16, 2009
Ottawa urged to target entire economy, not just heavy industry, and do away with patchwork approach to emissions adopted by provinces
OTTAWA — An effective Canadian climate change plan must target the entire economy and not just heavy industry, according to a federal advisory report released today that recommends a national cap-and-trade system.
The report from the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy also says Ottawa should step in to do away with the patchwork of climate-change rules popping up in various provinces so that business can work with a single, more efficient, national system.
Critics of the programme say the methods used amounted to torture.