Political hot air out of Ottawa is reminding Canadians to reduce air pollution..Blacklock’s Reporter says Infrastructure Minister Catherine McKenna flew across-country to make the remarks in Edmonton..McKenna is no stranger to Air Miles, racking up 29,000 km on aircraft last year alone, including six flights between Toronto and Ottawa..“We need to reduce air pollution,” said McKenna, citing a climate crisis..“Consider that the transportation sector represents a quarter of Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions..“Climate change is real. It is accelerating, and it is on all of us to take advantage of the solutions that already exist.”.McKenna traveled to Edmonton to announce federal subsidies for Edmonton’s light rail transit system..“Climate policy is actually tricky because it’s not just transit, it’s across all sectors, but it’s also being really diligent at looking at what are your emissions so you can actually tackle them,” said McKenna..“Some of the leadership has been about just measuring emissions and then being very practical in figuring out what are the different ways you can reduce emissions while also doing good things..“If you look at what’s happening across the country, you have fires that are burning, literally incinerating towns in a matter of hours. When you consider that in British Columbia seniors are dying because of the extreme heat..“If you look at Europe, Europe has floods that they’ve never seen before, the equivalent of three months of rain over three days. Climate change is real,” McKenna said..“There is nothing more important. We will get out of the COVID-19 pandemic, thank God, but then we will have the climate crisis, and we need to move forward together.”.McKenna said her news conference “could be my last event in Edmonton before I leave office.”.McKenna announced June 27 she would not seek re-election to a third term as MP for Ottawa Centre..McKenna was publicly criticized in 2018 for traveling by car and chauffeur to a Rockland, Ont. photo op on public transit where she criticized opponents..McKenna in 2019 also used her car and chauffeur for a 400-km round trip to Montréal to attend a McGill University seminar “on the challenges and opportunities of climate change.”.Dave Naylor is the News Editor of the Western Standard.,dnaylor@westernstandardonline.com,.Twitter.com/nobby7694
