This petition asks the Prime Minister to launch a major, well-funded national program to fight climate change by building clean energy infrastructure, cutting emissions from buildings and industry, electrifying transportation, and redirecting fossil fuel subsidies to pay for it.

In Canada and globally, sweltering heatwaves, devastating wildfires, melting glaciers, and unprecedented droughts and floods demonstrate that we are well into a climate crisis and flirting with a climate catastrophe;

We are experiencing an existential moment in human and planetary history that demands bold, purposeful action;

The crisis is caused by burning non-renewable fossil fuels;

Renewable energy is, in very many places, the most cost-effective source of new electrical power; and

Canada is actively engaged in an unprecedented opportunity to build a stronger, flourishing, and more internationally connected and respected country.

We, the undersigned,citizens and residents of Canada, call upon thePrime Ministerto create and implement an urgent, high-profile, generously funded Build Canada Stronger Climate Program anchored in: 1. Accelerating the connection of our electricity transmission infrastructure across Canada, and building one that is designed to enable distributed sources of electricity, large and small; 2. Empowering a massive build out of renewable electricity systems (solar, wind, geothermal and batteries) at scale, and quickly; 3. Galvanizing ambitious programs to radically reduce the carbon footprint of the residential, commercial and industrial sectors, for both new and existing buildings and industrial plants; 4. Expanding a comprehensive program to move our transportation sector off oil-based fuels and onto battery power; and 5. Redirecting the annual billions of dollars of current fossil fuel subsidies to help fund the Build Canada Stronger Climate Program.