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The Liberal government is expected next week to finally fulfil a promise Canada made 14 years ago to end federal subsidies that aid in the production of fossil fuels.

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[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This will be news when they’ve actually done it, and haven’t replaced it with the same thing under a different name.

[–] Kichae@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Instead of subsidies, we've negotiated to buy small quantities of fossil-fuels from producers for $1 billion / litre."

[–] Erk@cdda.social 4 points 1 year ago

Artisanal crude

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The word "unabated" seems to be doing a lot of heavy lifting in the announcement.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

They've got decades of trending to show the lack of abatement.

[–] Killer57@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Good, as somebody who lives in Alberta, the sooner the oil industry is dead and gone from this province the better.

[–] Bleach7297@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

Butbutbut... There ARE no subsidies!!! /s

[–] johnefrancis@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

seems like it will continue to be slow-rolled. The Conservatives will promise to do both the same, and the opposite.

[–] skellener@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Good! ✊

[–] TooTallSol@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Good. Now do the same with EV/Solar/Wind subsidies

[–] grte@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 year ago

Why would they do that when the goal is to expand those things?

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why? Are they threatening the world's climate too?

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Nah. Just irrelevant in the next-fiscal scope of the current ephemeral Con leader's buddies' thinking, and therefore valueless, thus expendable.

[–] Smk@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is this sarcasm ? I wonder what's your thought process ?

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

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Or something like that if I had to guess.

[–] Grant_M@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

Nope. We're moving forward.