Environment and Climate Change Minister Julie Dabrusin is pushing back against claims from Steven Guilbeault, who resigned from cabinet this week over Ottawa’s memorandum of understanding with Alberta and said Canada is dismantling several pieces of its climate plan.

“I really respectfully disagree with [Guilbeault] on his characterization of this memorandum of understanding,” Dabrusin said in an interview on CBC's Rosemary Barton Live . “I don’t see it as backsliding, and I don’t see it as cancelling programs."

The MOU — which paves a potential pathway for a new oil and gas pipeline to British Columbia long desired by Alberta — includes a commitment by Ottawa to not implement its oil and gas emissions cap and to suspend its clean electricity regulations in Alberta pending a new ca

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