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I strongly support your government’s plan to implement a Clean Electricity Regulation (CER) in Canada. The regulation must ensure Canada reaches a 100 per cent zero-emitting electricity system no later than 2035. Achieving this goal requires a regulation with no extensions or loopholes. The world’s top climate scientists’ recent report (2023 IPCC Synthesis) makes it clear that we need deep emissions cuts of planet-warming gases this decade to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, or we risk climate catastrophe and immense human suffering. The Clean Electricity Regulation must spur the transition to 100 per cent zero-emitting electricity by 2035 by expanding our reliance on efficiency, wind, solar, storage and interties. As a New Brunswick citizen concerned about climate change, I want a clean electricity regulation framework that does not lead to the development of shale gas in our province or encourages the use of biomass generated today primarily from clearcuts. Neither solution is consistent with staying within the global carbon budget and doing our fair share for climate action. We need a strong federal signal to encourage New Brunswick to shift to reliable, affordable renewable energy in the near-term that generates no emissions to generate electricity or that requires extensions awaiting experimental small modular nuclear reactors. I am counting on you to stand firm against premiers, utilities, and fossil fuel suppliers who are lobbying to undermine the clean electricity regulation. We can avoid loopholes if we: • Ensure electricity transition is affordable: Develop a national energy affordability and energy poverty strategy to ensure low- and moderate-income households have funding to retrofit homes, lower energy consumption and get into electric vehicles. • Prioritize proven, affordable technologies like wind, solar, energy storage, and improved transmission: Avoid extensions, exemptions, and loopholes for fossil fuel electricity, prohibit new fossil fuel electricity generation, fully expose the electricity sector to carbon pricing, and redirect public funds from fossil fuel generation with carbon capture and storage to renewable electricity. • Respect Indigenous rights and title: Ensure the free, prior, and informed consent of Indigenous communities, upholding their rights and providing ownership and participation pathways. • Collaborate: Adopt a whole-system approach, evolving electricity system governance to support renewables and interprovincial collaboration. • Prepare the workforce: Develop and fund training and retraining programs for renewable electricity generation, energy efficiency, and electrification. Electricity transformation is a national project I support. Let’s ensure it is effective and in line with what’s required to keep us climate safe.