Prime Minister Trudeau is determined to abide by the Paris Climate Agreement by reducing Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions. He is taking a balanced approach to achieve these goals by giving conditional federal government approval to some new pipeline infrastructure, but also requiring a tax on carbon. Investment in the oil-sands have already been scaled back on a large scale and may never reach their full potential because of other cheaper sources of oil, as well as the global growth of renewable energy sources.

Jane Fonda should be more concerned about what is happening in her own backyard, with Donald Trump’s plans to ramp up the production of coal and the lessening of environmental regulations.