New Brunswick opposition parties accuse government of not making climate change a priority

New Brunswick’s opposition parties say a lack of answers from the province’s environment minister during a meeting of the legislature’s estimates committee shows that addressing climate change is not a priority for the government. Minister of environment and climate change Gary Crossman spent the morning answering questions from opposition critics, sticking mostly to outlining the broad strokes of the department’s program from a piece of paper rather than engage with questions about policy decisions. That left Liberal environment critic Gilles Lepage frustrated after the meeting. “I don’t think this government takes climate change issues as important as it should be.”