• girlfreddy@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    How about we cut all federal funding for fossil fuel and mining companies instead?

    Oil Change International finds Canadian governments provided $14 billion per year to oil, gas, coal. Source

    The Canadian government announced that the 2022 budget would feature up to $3.8 billion in funding to support mining efforts in Canada over the next eight years. Source

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      11 months ago

      Why stop there? Cut subsidies to livestock and other environmentally destructive industries, too.