Canada’s environment minister says climate change is\u00a0still a priority in talks with U.S. officials on NAFTA, despite\u00a0President Donald Trump’s recent threat to scrap the pact altogether.<\/p>\n
Trump told a rally in Arizona on Tuesday that the U.S. would\u00a0“probably” end up terminating the North American Free Trade\u00a0Agreement, just after formal negotiations began last week.<\/p>\n
Climate change was already seen as a potential stumbling block in\u00a0the negotiations, as Trump has previously called global warming a\u00a0“hoax” and withdrew the U.S. from the Paris Climate Accord.<\/p>\n
But Catherine McKenna says Trump’s “heated rhetoric” won’t stop\u00a0Canada from promoting its interests, which include protecting its\u00a0water, air, land and animals from the impacts of climate change.<\/p>\n
McKenna was in Vancouver on Thursday to attend a roundtable\u00a0meeting with members of the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade and to\u00a0meet with British Columbia’s environment minister, George Heyman.<\/p>\n
She was asked about the B.C. government’s plan to join a court\u00a0challenge of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion and McKenna\u00a0replied that the province can make its own decisions but Ottawa\u00a0still supports the project.<\/p>\n
“We do think that this project is going to create good jobs,\u00a0it’s going to help grow the economy and that it can be done in a\u00a0sustainable way,” she said.<\/p><\/p>\n
Article source: http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/british-columbia\/environment-nafta-talks-mckenna-1.4261592?cmp=rss<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Canada’s environment minister says climate change is\u00a0still a priority in talks with U.S. officials on NAFTA, despite\u00a0President Donald Trump’s recent threat to scrap the pact altogether. Trump told a rally in Arizona on Tuesday that the U.S. would\u00a0“probably” end up terminating the North American Free Trade\u00a0Agreement, just after formal negotiations began last week. Climate change […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-87999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}