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The fed gvt is now engaged in public consultations for Budget 2021. They are taking submissions until Feb 19. If you want to make a submission the details are 
. And here's a thread with an idea for how #Budget21 can tackle the #ClimateEmergency: https://letstalkbudget2021.ca/pre_budget_consultations
. And here's a thread with an idea for how #Budget21 can tackle the #ClimateEmergency: https://letstalkbudget2021.ca/pre_budget_consultations
If Canada really wants to rise to the #ClimateEmergency, it needs to *spend what it takes to win!* This is the first marker that a govt actually gets the crisis & the fed budget needs to ante up. I wrote more on this here: https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/november-2020/canada-must-adopt-an-emergency-mindset-to-climate-change/
Here's my key recommendation for #Budget21 (and you are welcome to recommend it in your own budget submission): create an audacious new federal transfer program – a Climate Emergency Just Transition Transfer. The transfer should be $20-40 billion/year for the next 10 yrs...
It's distribution should be linked to GHG emissions (not per capita). So if Alberta is the source of 38% of Canada's GHGs, they would get 38% of the money (frozen at this share for the next 10 yrs). But, don't just transfer the $ to the provincial govts. Rather...
Set up Just Transition agencies in each province, jointly governed by all levels of govt, including Indigenous nations from that province and climate experts. That way we can ensure the money goes towards climate transition investments...
This is how we can make the promise of just transition real & visible (rather than a hollow promise), particularly in those provinces with the most heavy lifting to do. For more on this idea, see my piece with @gilmcgowan last year here: https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/11/30/opinion/renewing-confederation-we-rise-climate-emergency-modest-proposal
