17. How Canada Came Back with Catherine McKenna
Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast
Persephonica
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🗓️ 15 August 2019
⏱️ 35 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and |
| 0:15.0 | Paul Dickinson |
| 0:16.0 | Christina Figuetes and Christina figures and Christina |
| 0:19.0 | and Christina where is Tom |
| 0:21.0 | well you know Paul I think he might be at court or in jail. Oh. Because since |
| 0:27.4 | the 19th century there has been a law to prohibit child labor, which Tom clearly completely disobeyed last week, and much as it was |
| 0:41.1 | delightful to hear two wonderful little voices, |
| 0:45.0 | don't you think he might be in jail? |
| 0:48.0 | Yeah, I mean things have changed. |
| 0:50.0 | If not jail, then certainly he'll be in the social services as we say. |
| 0:54.0 | So Tom hasn't answered any of my calls lately and I'm assuming none of yours or none of |
| 1:01.0 | clays. So he might be put away someplace. |
| 1:05.0 | Well, we're just going to have to carry on without him, Christina. |
| 1:08.0 | It's worrying, but in a way, you know, when there's an emergency on, you you got to get the job done so |
| 1:13.0 | Christina you interviewed Catherine McKenna the inspiring environment minister of |
| 1:18.0 | Canada she is an amazingly interesting politician is she not Well she is she is actually the |
| 1:23.8 | Minister of Environment and climate change and you know Paul I remember the very |
| 1:31.6 | first time that after almost a decade of Stephen Harper |
| 1:37.5 | as PM the first time that under the new government of Justin Trudeau, |
| 1:45.0 | that Catherine McKenna walked into a negotiating room on climate change. |
| 1:49.0 | And it was just a few months before the Paris Agreement and she walked into a room full of ministers who had |
| 1:58.4 | been working very very hard on getting the Paris Agreement developed and developing common ground. |
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