Canada’s Inconvenient Truths

Our failure to recognize and address what’s needed for an inevitable energy transition and some “inconvenient truths” leaves Canada ill-equipped to handle the challenge ahead.

What are Canada’s “inconvenient truths” in the path toward achieving “net zero” carbon emissions by 2050? New research from Ipsos’ Context Energy study examines what Canadians understand (and don’t understand) about the energy transition process necessary to fight climate change, who will pay for it, and the lifestyle and behaviour changes that will be required.

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