Canada-California Partnership to Combat Climate Change

This partnership on climate action and environmental protection is more than just a 2019 agreement between Canada and California on reducing vehicle emissions, and will work to providing clean air and water, good jobs and healthy communitiesaccording to the joint statement.

Both leaders point to similarities to current policies in Canada and California, including efforts to ban harmful single-use plastics, promises to clean up electricity and healthy oceans, and environmental protection.

The agreement will encourage the sharing of information and best practices as the world faces a shrinking window to avoid the worst effects of climate change. But this announcement also comes as fuel prices are at record highs and inflation poses major challenges on both sides of the border.

MM’s press conference. Trudeau and Newsom arrived amid a busy second day for the prime minister at the 9th Summit of the Americas, to be held this week in Los Angeles. Mr. Trudeau then met President Joe Biden, then he will participate in the first plenary session of the heads of nations in America. He is also due to meet with the president of Argentina, before sitting down with Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet, Google’s main company.

The other day, Trudeau spent a day meeting with leaders from Latin America and the Caribbean to discuss ways to help them achieve their sustainable development goals.

The world is changing

Goldy Hyder, president and CEO of the Business Council of Canada, said Canada should use Thursday to bring its own needs to the table. The world is changing and, in response, new alignments are being formedsaid Mr. Hyder, who wants Ottawa to be more assertive with the United States on bilateral issues.

Supply chains are changing in real time, thanks to the long-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and governments are realizing that the private sector has an important role to play, he added.

So Canada must ask itself: How can we be partners? How can we combat climate change? What do we do about supply chain integrity?Hyder suggested.

These are the things we can work together, the public and private sectors. We must learn and do more if we want to help Canada navigate a very complex world.