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Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast

17. How Canada Came Back with Catherine McKenna

Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast

Persephonica

Society, Policy, Finance, News, Current Affairs, Society & Culture, Green, Environment, Energy, Business, Planet, Science, Climate

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

With Canada's warming rate blazing at a speed of two times the normal rate of growing global temperatures, the clock is ticking. This week, Paul and Christiana discuss the triumphant return of Canada to the table on global climate talks after a decade of absence, and later in the episode Christiana sits down with Catherine McKenna, the Canadian Minister of the Environment and Climate Change under Justin Trudeau. They get nerdy with it on climate policy and really wrestle with the uncomfortability of what it feels like to be in the midst of a transition on energy.

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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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