An Environmental Mismatch Harmful To The Economic Development And The Reputation Of The Components Of The Pan-Canadian Territory.

The current federal structure puts a brake on the evolution of the canadian states in term of environmental and sustainable development.

Some canadian territories have assumed their own environmental policies on a strict economic perspective, putting their own energy choices with their environmental impacts completely to the opposite of the interests of other canadian regions. For example: the exploitation of tar sands gives the future state of Alberta, the full extent of an economic development based on the actual price of fossil fuels across the world economy .

However this choice is currently assumed by the entire country of Canada affecting the production of greenhouse gases which are harmful to the biosphere on a global scale.

The positions of the future State of Ontario and the State of Quebec, to take these two cases among many others throughout the Commonwealth of Canada, are at the forefront of respect for the planet efficient use and high development of the strategies of the renewable energies. They would normally be the objects of great esteem and receive carbon points in their favor. On the economic front, sales of green energy, is as promising as that of oil at the time of the first global survey of the deposits.

The start of the new structure of the Commonwealth of Canada will end the environmental asymmetry which comes from the federation of 1867 dispositions which pulls down all the components of its territory for one of its provinces. It will require the State of Alberta to compensate from its wealth, for its production of greenhouse gases. It will eliminate the stigma that comes from a state choice to decide for the global energy choice of all the others. The energy policy choices are states choices Energy policy is an independent and distinct form of policy which should be a political choice of each component of the Commonwealth of Canada for it’s own state : assuming at the same time the full consequences of the choice of energy exploitation.

These choices should be betterly covered in a modern structure able to cope with the actual impacts of globalization. The future, puts us behind when a region becomes a concern of all the social economic infrastructure of one of the largest territories of the world whose political future is very promising for the benefit of a restructuration claimed by specialists from all sectors of the economy but which is put on hold by the sterile argument of proponents of a federal infrastructure and those who would move immediately to a state form of local government. These two are actually wrong.

The lifting shields on both sides, the large expenses on advertising campaigns brandishing their own ghosts have thrown discredit on the entire political class in Canada. We know the abuse and loss of energy in sponsorships. It artificially creates a false issue, a false threat in both camps, where an efficient solution is smooth and very far away from dangers. We must play the development of Canada betterly and the raise of a modern infrastructure that will be the focal point of coming generations and the entire international community.

Pierre Castonguay