It is absurd that at a time when Canada’s energy exports look set to top their all-time peak, Justin Trudeau has appointed as environment minister a man who opposes fossil fuel development in this country. How dangerous could Steven Guilbeault’s appointment be to Canada’s economic and political future? We are about to find out.
Guilbeault, the co-founder of Quebec environmental group Equiterre, has called himself “a radical pragmatist” but his background, including scaling the CN Tower when working for Greenpeace, hints more at the former than the latter.
He has long argued that Alberta crude should be land-locked to help the fight against climate change. He has opposed every pipeline proposed in this country in recent years, including the expansion of the Trans-Mountain pipeline, which his government owns. He told Trudeau when he first ran for office in 2019 that he couldn’t defend the project, to which the prime minister apparently responded: “Fine, I don’t have any problem with that.”
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