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In
August 2019, the Environment and Climate Change (ECCC) department’s
then-minister, Catherine McKenna, gave $493,937 of taxpayer dollars to
the WEF to produce the report, as revealed in response to an Order Paper
Question sent by Conservative MP Leslyn Lewis.
Specifically,
the documents reveal the ECCC gave money “to enable [the WEF] to
produce and disseminate a report that will establish the business and
economic case for safeguarding nature.”
“This
report will be directed at senior decision makers in governments and
businesses who have the influence and ability to shift business-as-usual approach,” the ECCC stated. [Emphasis added]
In the report provided six months later, the WEF sourced papers
favouring a carbon tax. It concluded its policy recommendations by
stating, “What is required is bold policy ambition and decisive
political leadership to signal that business-as-usual is no longer viable.” [Emphasis added]
Despite
being published only in June 2020 – just months after the COVID virus
emerged from Wuhan, China — the WEF also urged governments to “use their
fiscal recovery programmes to reset the economy on more resilient,
equitable, and sustainable terms.”
Just
months later, in December 2020, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced
a significant hike in his government’s carbon tax scheme — one that
would raise the tax on fuels to $170 a tonne by 2030.
The government’s statement “Propose[d]
to strengthen Canada’s approach to reducing methane emissions from the
oil and gas sector by establishing new targets and associated
regulations for 2030 and 2035, based on international best practices.”
Liberal partnership with WEF
Last year, it was revealed the Trudeau Liberals have a $105.3 million contract to develop a Known Traveler Digital ID — and the WEF is a project partner.
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