Environment and Climate Change Minister Julie Dabrusin rises during Question Period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on June 17, 2025. The Canadian Press/Justin Tang
The environment ministers of Alberta and Ontario sent a letter to Ottawa ahead of a July 2 and 3 conference between provincial and federal leaders in Yellowknife asking for the repeal of a number of Trudeau-era federal climate rules they say are slowing Canada’s economic growth.
The letter, sent by Alberta’s Rebecca Schulz and Ontario’s Todd McCarthy, says the Impact Assessment Act, emissions cap for the oil and gas sector, clean electricity regulations, and areas of the Species at Risk Act are preventing Canada from moving ahead economically and have no “quantifiable benefits to the natural environment.”
