If you squint, it’s possible to read federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault’s controversial comments about federal funding for road construction and see the faint outline of something the federal government and (most of) the provinces committed to more than seven years ago.
As part of the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change — which all of the provinces except Saskatchewan and Manitoba approved in December 2016 — the assembled governments agreed to a broad range of principles and goals, including a commitment to support “the shift from higher to lower-emitting types of transportation, including through investing in infrastructure.”
“Shifting from higher- to lower-emitting
