How Canada became an environmental outlier
OpEd by Tom Mulcair, former the leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada (2012-2017).
Fifty years ago, Canada became a major, credible player in the world of environmental protection with the creation of our first department of the environment by former prime minister Pierre Trudeau. That move was accompanied by a progressive vision that was critical of the unbridled growth which showed no regard to the consequences for life on our planet.
Since then, we have witnessed what Christopher Orr, ֱ researcher and bioresource engineering Ph.D. student, calls a “troubling environmental backslide” that has seen Canada go from leader to laggard.
[Christopher Orr is a PhD candidate in Natural Resource Sciences, co-supervised by Professors Jim Fyles and Peter Brown. Learn more about Chris on his ]