Carney’s incoherent climate policy hurting our European allies, helping China, and holding Canada back

Christian Leuprecht and Dimitar Lilkov/The Hub: Canada’s European allies are handicapped by energy insecurity and vulnerable to global gas imports, especially after (rightfully) banning Russian supply. Brussels is eyeing possibilities to diversify from the U.S., on which the EU now depends for more than half of its imported LNG, and for which the EU pays a hefty premium. Canadian environmental ideology is driving high energy and electricity prices in Europe that are responsible for the rise of the same right-wing populist extremists that those same Canadian ideologues abhor. Canada’s recent LNG deal with the EU ensures gas exports to Europe while guaranteeing Canadian jobs in one of the world’s lowest-emission LNG operations: British Columbia…