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Aid for Canada’s energy sector heavily weighted towards fossil fuels in COVID-19 response
Documents prepared for Natural Resources Canada deputy minister Christyne Tremblay ahead of an April 20 meeting, and obtained through an access to information request, show just a few weeks into the pandemic the government was already well aware that COVID-19 was wreaking havoc right across the energy sector, including fossil fuels and renewables.Tremblay’s notes for the meeting say that global energy demand had collapsed, posing big problems for the Canadian economy.“This will challenge Canada’s climate and energy transformation agendas,” the document reads.Stewart said that doesn’t have to be true if the federal government makes sure its COVID-19 economic stimulus programs focus on policies to move those agendas forward.An attached