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GOLDSTEIN: Liberals’ clean energy crusade has been a super disaster

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Achieving the Liberals’ 2030 target will require eliminating all annual emissions from Canada ’s transportation and building sectors in seven years , which would inevitably cause a massive recession.

Canada has the worst record of reducing emissions of any member of the G7 , including the U.S ..

In terms of economic growth, Statistics Canada reported earlier this year that Canada ’s real GDP per capita, which measures economic output per person, adjusted for inflation, and is a widely accepted metric for measuring the standard of living, fell by 1.4% in 2024 , following a decline of 1.3% in 2023 . Over its near-decade in power, Canada ’s economic growth under the Liberals has been the lowest since the government of R.B. Bennett during the Great Depression . lgoldstein@postmedia.com.

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