Canadian environmental policy under Conservative majority rule

MacNeil, Robert

doi:10.1080/09644016.2013.854968

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“…The then-governing Liberal Party had done little about climate change before, and after ratification failed to implement an effective plan to meet its targets (Murphy and Murphy 2012;MacNeil 2014). The Conservative Party came to power in 2006 as a minority government and vigorously opposed the Kyoto Protocol.…”

Section: Canada and Climate Policymentioning

confidence: 97%

Canadian News Media Coverage of Climate Change: Historical Trajectories, Dominant Frames, and International Comparisons

Stoddart

Haluza‐DeLay

Tindall

2015

Society & Natural Resources

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Section: Canada and Climate Policymentioning

confidence: 97%

Canadian News Media Coverage of Climate Change: Historical Trajectories, Dominant Frames, and International Comparisons

Stoddart

Haluza‐DeLay

Tindall

2015

Society & Natural Resources

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“…Harper boasted that Canada would be an “energy superpower,” and subsequently defunded federal environmental programs and research (Dalby :494). His government walked away from the Kyoto Protocol commitments and passed the Jobs, Growth, and Long‐Term Prosperity Act in 2012, which significantly reduced federal environmental regulations to the Federal Environmental Assessment Act, Species at Risk Act, Fisheries Act , and several related areas (MacNeil ). The blueprint for leading Canada toward “economic success” entailed dramatically reduced environmental protections.…”

Section: Discussion: the Harper Government Big Oil And Neoliberal Smentioning

confidence: 99%

The Lac‐Mégantic Derailment, Corporate Regulation, and Neoliberal Sovereignty

Dunford

2017

Canadian Review of Sociology

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On July 6, 2013, Montreal, Maine, and Atlantic railcar 5017 hauling 72 tanker cars of Bakken crude oil derailed over the town of Lac-Mégantic, Quebec. The town erupted in a fiery inferno as 5,560,000 liters of highly flammable Bakken crude oil exploded over the town, killing 47 people and contaminating 558,000 tons of soil and local waterways. While Montreal, Maine, and Atlantic Rail Chairman Edward Burkhardt initially blamed the derailment on the lone engineer and local firefighters, this study shows how Transport Canada and the rail industry undermined regulatory and safety measures for several years before the derailment. This study uses a Foucauldian theoretical perspective to conceptualize and explain a new political mentality that transfers existing state regulatory authority to the corporate sector. This new mentality, neoliberal sovereignty, is composed of sovereign and neoliberal logics that monopolize "correct" trajectories of human economic development. This absolute market mentality merges with state sovereignty and eliminates existing safety and regulation frameworks to pursue unregulated corporate profits. Le 6 juillet 2013, un train de 72 wagons-citernes transportant du pétrole brute Bakken a déraillé de la ligne de chemin de fer de la Montréal, Maine et Atlantique, dans la ville de Lac-Mégantic au Québec. La ville c'est transformé en véritable enfer, alors que 5 560 000 litre de pétrole brute Bakken très inflammable ont fait explosé la ville, tuant quarante-sept personnes et contaminant 558 000 tonnes d'eaux et du sol de Lac-Mégantic et ses environs. Alors que le président de la MMA, Edward Burkhart, a d'abord blâmé l'ingénieur et le service d'incendie local, les études montrent que Transport Canada et l'industrie ferroviaire ont amoindrit les mesures de réglementation et de sécurité plusieurs années avant le déraillement. Cette étude utilise une perspective théorique foucauldienne pour conceptualiser et expliquer une nouvelle mentalité politique qui transfère l'autorité de régulations gouvernementales existantes au secteur des entreprises. Cette nouvelle mentalité, souveraines et néo-libérale, est composé de logique souveraines et néo-libérales qui monopolise les trajectoires « respectables » de développement économique humain. Cette mentalité de marché absolu fusionne avec la souveraineté de l'État et élimine les cadres de sécurité et les réglementations existantes pour les bénéfices des entreprises non réglementaires.

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“…Although Canada ratified the Kyoto Protocol, in 2012 it became the first country to withdraw from the accord postratification. Canada has one of the highest per capita carbon footprints in the world, coupled with a poor record of performance on greenhouse-gas reductions (Murphy and Murphy 2012, Hayden 2014, MacNeil 2014. The country is increasingly singled out for protest at international climate-change meetings, including COP 15, where it was given the '"Colossal Fossil" award from environmental NGOs for doing the most to obstruct global climate efforts' (Hayden 2014, p. 103).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 97%