McKENNA AIMS FOR CLIMATE TALK WITH U. S. EPA HEAD

Canada will keep talking with the White House regardless of its position on the Paris accord because the two countries have more than just climate change to talk about, says Environment Minister Catherine McKenna. McKenna, pictured, heads to Italy this weekend for a G7 ministerial meeting where she hopes to have a private conversation with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency head Scott Pruitt. It is her first chance to talk to him directly since President Donald Trump announced he was pulling the United States out of the Paris accord, largely on Pruitt’s advice. “Clearly, we have a difference of perspectives on the Paris Agreement, although I believe that conversations are important, so I will be once again reiterating that the Paris Agreement is very important to tackle climate change,” she said.