Canadian mayors push federal leaders for action on climate, not pipelines [Video]

Municipal politicians across Canada have written a letter to the five main federal party leaders calling for climate-related actions they say would improve the country’s resilience to environmental calamities. 

The group includes Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante, Jasper, Alta., Mayor Richard Ireland, former Toronto mayor David Miller, Princeton, B.C., Mayor Spencer Coyne and Ben Hendriksen, the deputy mayor of Yellowknife. A total of 128 mayors, deputy mayors, city councillors and area directors signed on.

In the letter published Friday, the mayors and councillors say their ideas would create jobs and use Canadian steel, aluminum and lumber — sectors of the economy threatened by American tariffs — and appear to take aim at the Liberals’ and Conservatives’ focus on resource extraction projects to make the economy less dependent on the U.S.