Canada gives $3.3bn subsidies to fossil fuel producers despite climate pledge

Government subsidy to gas and oil companies undermine Trudeau's plan to put national price on carbon dioxide by 2018, environmental report warned

Canada's attempt to act on climate change is being undermined by $3.3bn in government subsidies flowing to oil and gas producers in the country a year, a new report has warned.

The prime minister, Justin Trudeau, has vowed to place a national price on carbon dioxide emissions by 2018. Last week, Trudeau said he would not be deterred by the election as US president of Donald Trump, who has called climate change a "hoax", and would forge ahead with the plan to "show leadership that quite frankly the entire world is looking for".