How Steven Guilbeault went from Greenpeace climate change radical to Canada's Minister of Environment and Climate Change

[blackbird]

Before he was a politician, he was an activist

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⭐️HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW⭐️

• Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced his cabinet.
• Those are the politicians who will work closely with the PM to help him achieve his goals.
• Steven Guilbeault was named environment and climate change minister.
• Keep reading to learn more about him. ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️

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Imagine having the job of tackling climate change and protecting the environment for Canada right now.

Well, that job has just been given to Steven Guilbeault (pronounced gill-BO).

His official title is minister of environment and climate change.

One of Guilbeault’s first assignments will be to represent Canada at the COP26 conference in Glasgow, Scotland, next week, which is an important event where world leaders will work together to find ways to fight climate change.

It’s the first of many challenges he faces, including helping Canada reach its goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 40 per cent before 2030.

Canada has never met its emissions targets before.

• WATCH — Where the federal leaders stand on climate change

From left, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Steven Guilbeault and Governor General Mary May Simon pose at a cabinet swearing-in ceremony at Rideau Hall in Ottawa, Ontario, on Tuesday.

How Steven Guilbeault went from protester to new climate change minister | story | Kids News

Edited March 27 by blackbird

[blackbird]

"Steven Guilbeault's long climb from tree hugger to Liberal environment minister

Civil disobedience was never a goal in and of itself. It was just a tool. And now I’m using different tools,' Guilbeault told the Post in 2019

Steven Guilbeault’s first environmental protest took place when he was around five years old, in his hometown of La Tuque, Que.

He lived in a house that backed onto a forest where he used to play, and one day he saw developers removing trees. Panicked, he ran inside to his mother and asked what he should do; she responded that if he climbed a tree, they couldn’t cut it down.

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“I climbed it and stayed there for hours and hours, and that day, they didn’t cut down that tree,” Guilbeault recounted in a 2017 Radio-Canada interview. “That was the beginning.”

Now 45 years later, following decades of environmental activism and several arrests, Guilbeault is Canada’s new environment minister.

It is an appointment that has startled, and even frightened, some who fear that the “Green Jesus of Montreal” — as he was dubbed by Quebec media — is going to clamp down hard on the country’s oil, gas and energy sector.

Calgary Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner was the latest to attack him when she said on Friday that the country needed policies that help spur economic growth and lower greenhouse gas emissions in a way that “leaves no one behind.”

“Justin Trudeau could have appointed an environment minister that understands this point. Instead, Justin Trudeau appointed an ideological anti-energy activist,” she said in a statement, claiming that Guilbeault had fought “to shut down entire industries.”

Steven Guilbeault's long climb from tree hugger to Liberal environment minister | National Post

 

Edited March 27 by blackbird

[ironstone]

The Liberal party is a big tent party and everyone is welcome....except people that are even remotely conservative lol.

It was a meteoric rise for Stephen Guilbeault, an eco terrorist to Environment Minister. I guess he learned that it was easier to join a willing host to push his agenda on the population rather than engaging in 'disruptive' activities. 

I would wager that he still supports certain methods like destroying Tesla's as a means to destroy one particular individual.

[herbie]

That was unfortunate but it was too difficult to choose someone form the many with a brainworm or was completely unqualified. Perhaps PP will do as you wish and appoint the head of Exxon-Mobil to run the Environmental Dept.

Edited March 27 by herbie

[blackbird]

"Carney says he will double the Indigenous Loan Guarantee Program from $5 billion to $10 billion. Only catch is it cannot be invested in oil and gas. That shows you he will attack oil and gas if elected."

Letters, March 27: Carney shows he'll attack oil and gas industry

Sounds like Carney is much like Guilbeault, just that he didn't climb the CN Tower.