President Donald Trump didn’t just have to resist the entrieaties of his daughter Ivanka and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to stay with the Paris climate<\/b>
\nPresident Donald Trump didn\u2019 t just have to resist the entrieaties of his daughter Ivanka and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to stay with the Paris climate accord. As Canada\u2019s envionment and climate change minister told CTV News on Sunda y, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pleaded with President Donald Trump to remain in the agreement.
Catherine McKenna says that she, Trudeau and Foreign Affairs Minster Chystia Freeland were \u201cvery active\u201d in their efforts to convince Trump that the climate agreement was good for America and that it would be better for the U. S. to maintain a seat at the climate change table.
\u201cBut clearly that message didn\u2019 t resonate, \u201d she said on CTV\u2019s Question Period.
Just a couple of months ago, McKenna was a fount of optimism when asked if Trump was really serious about leaving a climate accord that committed the U. S. to reduce its 2005 greenhouse gas emissions by 26 to 28 percent by 2025. She claimed that \u201cthere\u2019s certainly been positive signals from the president\u201d that he would renege on his promise to voters.
Now, like Trudeau, who used them same language to describe his feelings, McKenna says she is disappointed that \u201cthey didn\u2019 t take our advice.\u201d
But she is also apparently confused, saying, \u201cI\u2019 m just not clear about what the U. S. position is, \u201d though she did not specify what part of \u201cno\u201d she did not understand.
McKenna claims, \u201cThe Paris agreement was always designed to have flexibility. So the U. S. had the flexibility, and the Trump administration the flexibility to decide what actions they were going to take in the United States.\u201d
Suggesting it could take four years for the U. S. to formally leave the accord, McKenna says it would be impossible to renegotiate the deal.
\u201cYou can\u2019 t renegotiate the Paris agreement. It\u2019s in force, although 90 per cent of the rules remain to be negotiated. I\u2019 ve made this case to my American counterpart that [it\u2019s] better to be at the table and be negotiating the rules, \u201d she said.
But Conservative international trade critic Gerry Ritz told CTV that it\u2019s now time \u201cfor some solid reflection\u201d on where Canada goes from here.
\u201cCanada can show some leadership here, but for us to completely clean up our house and no one else come on board even, like China, until 2030, what are we doing? We\u2019 re 1.6 percent of the whole global problem, so we can go to zero if you can get to that point technically, and it still wouldn\u2019 t make a difference globally. So there\u2019s a lot of work to be done, \u201d said Ritz
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