The federal New Democratic Party has reintroduced the Climate Change Accountability Act, an updated version of the bill the late Jack Layton first presented to the House of Commons back in 2007.
The federal New Democratic Party has reintroduced the Climate Change Accountability Act, an updated version of the bill the late Jack Layton first presented to the House of Commons back in 2007.
Beaches-East York MP Matthew Kellway introduced Bill C-619, an act to ensure Canada assumes its responsibilities in preventing dangerous climate change, on June 16.
NDP leader Thomas Mulcair seconded the bill, which also had its first reading that same day.
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"We have before us the challenge of climate change; a challenge that calls upon us to look beyond ourselves, beyond this time and place," Kellway told the Hon. Andrew Sheer, the Speaker of the House of Commons.
"Arresting climate change is the world’s struggle. Everybody must play their part. … We are, all of us, entrusted with the care of the earth we inhabit and the well-being of all those who inhabit it. We need, now, to act upon that responsibility."
This bill, which the House of Commons passed in 2008 but died when Prime Minister Stephen Harper unexpectedly called an election that same year, calls on the government to establish a plan to avoid catastrophic climate change and meet the science-based targets to reduce greenhouse gases to 80 per cent below 1990 levels by 2050.
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