I am emailing you to express my serious concerns regarding the proposed Emissions Cap on Canada’s oil and natural gas industry.
At this time when Canadian families are grappling with an affordability crisis, we need to be doing everything we can to help families pay their bills and put food on their tables.
Now is not the time to be experimenting with risky economic policies - especially ones targeted at our largest and most important industries.
Imposing a cap on oil and natural gas emissions will:
Canadians don’t have to choose between supporting energy workers and protecting the planet.
We can do both.
For the past several years, Canada’s energy sector has taken decisive action to reduce emissions, while continuing to create jobs and nation-wide prosperity at the same time.
Rather than limiting this critically important sector of ours, let’s instead continue the ongoing work to become the world’s leader in responsibly produced oil and natural gas.
The world will need energy for decades to come and it should be coming from Canada’s responsible producers.
Capping those producers is not in Canada’s or the world’s best interests.
Steven Guilbeault Minister of Environment and Climate Change
Government of Canada
Your Member(s) of Parliament