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‘A Crushing Disappointment’: Trudeau’s Climate Legacy

The Liberal government has made climate action a key part of its brand, but how well does this image stack up to reality?

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Jeremy Appel
Dec 12, 2024
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Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau arrives at COP26 in Glasgow, U.K., in November 2021. (Flickr/COP26)

This story was originally published in the Maple.

In November 2015, just weeks after his Liberal government was sworn in, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made one of his first international appearances at COP21 in Paris.

“Canada is back, my friends,” Tr…

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