Prime Minister Mark Carney has correctly admitted that the federal government will not achieve its 2030 and 2035 industrial greenhouse gas emission targets under the climate strategy of his predecessor, Justin Trudeau.

“We have too much regulation, not enough action,” Carney told CBC in a year-end interview commenting on Trudeau’s plan.

Costing federal taxpayers more than $200 billion and funding 149 government programs administered by 13 federal departments, that plan was expected to achieve, at best, half of its promised emission cuts.

In light of that, Carney should demand that federal government departments – particularly the environment ministry – start putting out realistic assessments of Canada’s progress toward the government’s eventual goal of achieving net zero emissions by 2050.

This as opposed to the nonsensical, politically-motivated claims they’ve been making for years, contradicted by the findings of their own experts.

A brief history lesson tells the story.

On Nov. 7, 2023, federal environment commissioner Jerry V. DeMarco reported that the government’s first emissions reduction plan released in March 2022 would fail to achieve its 2030 target of reducing Canada’s emissions 40% to 45% below 2005 levels.

He said it didn’t include targets or expected emission reductions for 95% of the measures in it and that less than half had an implementation deadline or were expected to lower emissions.

Key mitigation measures had........

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