{"id":175857,"date":"2021-09-01T09:01:09","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T09:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/canada-burns-and-the-election-heats-up-trudeau-s-still-trying-to-figure-out-if-he-s-a-climate-warrior"},"modified":"2021-09-01T09:01:09","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T09:01:09","slug":"canada-burns-and-the-election-heats-up-trudeau-s-still-trying-to-figure-out-if-he-s-a-climate-warrior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/canada-burns-and-the-election-heats-up-trudeau-s-still-trying-to-figure-out-if-he-s-a-climate-warrior","title":{"rendered":"Canada burns and the election heats up. Trudeau&#8217;s still trying to figure out if he&#8217;s a climate warrior."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Severe droughts and hundreds of wildfires have taken their toll on Canada this summer. | Darryl Dyck\/The Canadian Press OTTAWA &#8212; Justin Trudeau unveiled his party&#8217;s climate plan to fast track a goal to reach net-zero emissions by 2050 at a campaign event Sunday, and he was nearly drowned out by a cacophony of screaming protesters and their air sirens. The Canadian prime minister pledged a re-elected Liberal government would see the greenhouse gas emissions from Canada&#8217;s oil and gas &#8220;decrease every year,&#8221; a goal he said would be guided by &#8220;achievable milestones&#8221; every five years. Trudeau had a cheeky response to protestors at the Cambridge, Ontario campaign stop, riffing that &#8220;Sirens in the background may remind us that this is a climate emergency.&#8221; Canada is in the throes of a pandemic election that will see voters go to the polls on Sept. 20, after a summer of climate extremes. Hundreds of sudden deaths were recorded in British Columbia after<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The summer of 2021 is changing the way Canadians think about climate change, but both main parties are struggling to define their message &#8212; and uphold Canada&#8217;s international commitments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[199,1],"tags":[215],"class_list":["post-175857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-news","tag-environment"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}