i think this interview with canadian prime minister justin trudeau may be the first time the leader of a big polluting country has been grilled on their failure to stop burning fossil fuels fast enough to honor their climate promises, and it is 2022
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there is no reason why political journalists with access to decision-makers should not be able to ask similarly tough, factual questions, and i'd guess there are very few world leaders who would be able to greenwash their way through such questioning
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and happy to see sneak in a question about canada's financial responsibility to the rest of the world for having made bad weather worse (even if trudeau didn't seem to get the distinction between paying for damage done vs paying to clean up and adapt...)
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The hardest of hardball interviews on climate policy. Bravo @AkshatRathi!
And... 100:1 odds against interviewing another Head of State anytime soon 
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As of Sept 15 2021, Canada's climate policy was highly insufficient, working toward 4ºC by 2100 climateactiontracker.org/countries/cana
Good to bear in mind listening to Trudeaux' entry statement that his government put Canada "on track". His 40-45% by 2030 is not nearly enough for Paris, either
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