“It certainly wasn’t my idea. It was clearly a mistake and moved far, far too quickly. It was a long path to get back in place.”
“There has been no other premier in our history that has accomplished as much as he did,” Savage said.Savage said she carried Kenney’s look-ahead attitude into the environment ministry, from where she delivered the province’s first climate change strategy in April. That policy is now in the mandate letter of current Environment Minister Rebecca Schulz.
But that policy, which proposes a series of studies, commissions and reports with no timelines or interim targets, has been criticized as a plan to make a plan at a time when the rest of the world is starting to take action. Savage makes no apologies.