Bob Mackin
When Mark Carney announced the Liberal housing platform on March 31 in Vaughan, Ont., he flew in his star candidate from the West Coast.
During his decade as Mayor of Vancouver, Gregor Robertson was one of Canada’s loudest voices for decarbonization.
But the Vancouver Fraserview-South Burnaby candidate also became one of the most-travelled politicians in B.C. history, spending $127,000 of taxpayers’ funds and 331 days outside the city from 2009 to 2017.
During a July 2020, Ethelo eDemocracy webinar, Robertson admitted globetrotting pollutes.
He also slammed the Liberal government’s vow to finish the Trans-Mountain pipeline. He advocated for “making sure that national governments follow through and aren’t pulled by the fossil fuel industry into investments that will impact us for generations to come.”
From 2008 to 2018, Robertson’s Vision Vancouver party campaigned against pipelines and tankers and promised to make the city the world’s greenest by 2020.
If elected on April 28, Robertson would be subject to weekly round-trip flights between Vancouver and Ottawa.
In reaction to Donald Trump’s tariffs, Carney has promised to make Canada an “energy superpower.”
Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre’s platform is more specific. It envisions faster approvals for pipelines and liquefied natural gas plants in order to increase exports to non-U.S. customers.
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