Environment

The RPC will invest heavily in the cleantech sector (e.g., direct, passive direct, and electric carbon capture and storage (CCS)) and in renewable energy (e.g., wind, solar, tidal, fusion), with the aim of being a net exporter of such products, services, and energy. Specifically, we aim to become a major net exporter of clean energy to the USA in the short term, South America after that, and eventually the rest of the world to support our shared international environmental goals.

The RPC will legislate incentives for researching heat pump[link] and associated technologies as a means to provide Canadians a more energy efficient means to heat and cool their homes in the increasingly dynamic future climate.

The RPC will legislate incentives for replacing inefficient electric coil and environmentally unfriendly gas fueled stoves with induction element stoves.

The RPC will legislate a ban on the export of raw logs to take effect as soon as is practicable.

The RPC will create a publicly-owned national airline to facilitate movement of Canadians, first prioritizing the 50 most populated Canadian cities and communities reliant on air travel (i.e., especially Indigenous communities in northern areas), before expanding to serve all of Canada, as necessary. Until clean air travel technology (e.g., solar, electric, and hydrogen-powered airplanes) has developed far enough to provide a practical replacement for fossil fuel air vehicles, we believe a general policy of limited air travel should be encouraged to limit creation of greenhouse gas emissions that contributing to our imminent climate crisis.

The RPC will create a publicly-owned, clean energy-powered national high-speed rail network to facilitate movement of Canadians from coast-to-coast and between major centres of commerce, starting with five key routes: a Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal loop, a Montreal-Quebec City corridor, a Vancouver-Kamloops-Calgary corridor, a Calgary-Edmonton corridor, and a Toronto-Kitchener-London-Windsor corridor. By 2050, we aim to construct the Trans-Canada Railway (TCR), a rail system equivalent to the Trans-Canada Highway (TCH), which emulates the best parts of the Japanese, French, German, Chinese, and Spanish systems and serve Canadians with the second-most kilometres of high-speed rail (8,000km) in the world (behind only China)[1].

The RPC will enact a national strategy which requires Canada to be at least net zero emissions (all GHGs) by 2045 and to be materially net negative by 2050.

The RPC will require large parking lots to install solar panels, wherever it is safe and feasible to do so, which will contribute to the public electric grid.

The RPC will immediately cancel all new oil exploration, cancel all new pipeline projects, prohibit natural gas in new residential builds, ban hydraulic fracturing (fracking), end all subsidies to the fossil fuel sector, require federal investment funds to divest entirely from fossil fuels, and create a plan with an aggressive timeline with strict penalties to end leasing of federal lands for fossil fuel production and ensure companies and their executives are held accountable for paying for the entire costs of cleaning up and restoring land.

The RPC will work to reduce planned obsolescence for all imported goods and all goods manufactured domestically.

The RPC will introduce a new proportion means-tested landing fee for private jet travellers arriving at Canadian airports.

The RPC will legislate strong 'right to repair' consumer protection rights for all imported goods and all goods manufactured domestically.