Welcome to Zero. I'm Akshadrati.

This week, a man, a plan?

Canada?

On Tuesday, I was invited to interview the Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau,

at an event organized by the Canadian Climate Institute and the Net Zero Advisory Body.

Trudeau was elected in 2015, just before the Paris Agreement was signed.

He's been in office for seven years and has won three elections on a climate mandate

against a climate-sceptic Conservative Party.

It's still a very real political debate in this country.

There are still people who are hell-bent on reversing our approach on fighting climate change, on repealing a price on pollution,

a price on pollution that industry is relying on to track their costs. It is not a done debate.

Trudeau pitches Canada as a climate leader, one that has installed a series of bold climate

targets and policies in recent years. But a quick scan of Canada's greenhouse gas emissions

tells a different story, one of little actual progress. Canada has the second highest per capita

CO2 emissions in the G20 and its emissions remain persistently high.

At COP26 in Glasgow last year, Trudeau promised Canada would reduce its emissions by 45%

by 2030. Meanwhile, Canada's oil and gas production has soared and according to the government's

plans will keep rising to the end of this decade.

2030 is only eight years away and I really wanted to understand from the Prime Minister

when the country's emissions will fall for real.

Our conversation was recorded live in front of an audience at the National Art Center in downtown Ottawa.

It focuses on how Canada can achieve its climate pledges this decade when its economy

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