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Environmental groups are pointing to the consequences of climate change for why they’re siding with the federal government on Saskatchewan’s carbon tax challenge.
Mark Bigland-Pritchard is from Climate Justice Saskatoon, part of a coalition of environmental and social justice groups that has intervenor status in the court case. He cited the IPCC report from October that said the world has 12 years to get its emissions down to zero or face more floods, droughts and extreme heat.
“We need all the tools we can find to address the climate crisis while also doing justice to people who are currently in the fossil fuel and also doing justice for our First Nations and other Indigenous people,” said Bigland-Pritchard.
“We’re not happy about one of those tools being pulled out of the box simply for political or ideological reasons.”
He also said that pollution and climate change are not confined to borders, calling it a matter of foreign policy since Canada has international obligations to lower emissions under the Paris Accord.
In his view, that makes it a responsibility of the federal government.
“If the federal government cannot, in some degree, enforce that on the whole nation in a fair way, then we’re in a mess,” he said.