- Created a new working group with United States and Mexico in 2015 to harmonize regulations and enhance cooperation on cutting carbon emissions while supporting the exchange of clean energy technology and the development and deployment of Carbon Capture and Storage in the United States and Canada (1)
- Launched the United States-Canada Clean Energy Dialogue in 2009 to enhance bilateral cooperation on the development of clean energy sources to reduce greenhouse gases and support a transition to a low-carbon North American economy (2, 3)
- Has been reducing subsidies to the fossil fuel industry in line with Canada’s 2009 G20 commitment (4)
- Promotes the deployment of clean energy technologies to Aboriginal and Northern communities (5)
- Pledges to support economically viable energy projects that will assist regions and provinces in the replacement of fossil fuels with renewable fuels sources, provided the project has a national or regional significance, has economic and financial merit, and will significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions (6)
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- Believes that Canada must take immediate action in building a clean and renewable energy program that is essential for growing Canada’s economy, creating jobs, developing a competitive and skilled workforce, and ensuring Canada’s long-term prosperity (7, 8, 9)
- Will foster Canada's renewable energy industry to ensure its participation in a global industry, expected to be worth $3 trillion dollars by 2020 (9, 10, 12)
- Will use revenue from a cap-and-trade system that puts a market price on carbon to invest in renewable and clean energy projects (11)
- Pledges to shift tax breaks to renewable energy and away from the oil industry (12, 13)
- Promises to halt the expansion of Canada’s nuclear energy program while upgrading the safety and security of current nuclear energy facilities (14)
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- Will work with the provinces to create a national energy strategy that will boost energy conservation and increase clean and renewable energy in Canada's grid, in part through direct federal infrastructure commitments (15)
- Will work with private industry to make Canada one of the most competitive tax jurisdictions for clean energy investment by expanding the scientific research and experimental development tax credit to cleaner-energy areas, creating a Canadian Green Investment Bond, and extending the accelerated capital cost allowance to cover renewable energy and energy-efficient technologies (15, 18)
- Pledges to invest $200 million dollars more annually to create sector-specific strategies and support innovation in clean technologies in the forestry, fisheries, mining, energy, and agricultural sectors (16, 17)
- Promises to invest $100 million dollars more annually in organizations that have been successful at supporting the emergence of clean technology firms, such as Sustainable Development Technology Canada, and would create Canada Research Chairs in sustainable technology (16, 17)
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- Supports the development and investment in clean energy across the country and believe it would better protect Canada from oil price shocks and create more jobs than the oil sector (19)
- Pledges to build an economy powered by renewable energy sources and discourage wasteful practices, including investing in an East-West energy grid to make better use of renewable energy sources (20)
- Will use revenue generated by eliminating tax subsidies and havens, as well as other sources of revenue, to support green energy and infrastructure and give an annual commitment to the Green Climate Fund (19)
- Believes that Canada should invest in a transit system with non-polluting vehicles, energy efficiency retrofits, and energy-efficient agriculture (19, 20)
- Supports the diversification of Canada’s national energy mix to include more renewable energy solar, wind, tidal, geothermal and run-of-the-river hydroelectric power (21)
- Opposes the use of nuclear power and would work to phase out existing reactors, place a moratorium on uranium mining and refining, and remove subsidies to nuclear plants aside from those that assist in maintaining the safety of nuclear facilities (22)
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