Despite a parliamentary majority, the Carney government has no plans to enshrine recent commitments to protect the country’s waters and lands into federal legislation, said Canada’s junior nature minister.

“Right now, we are not working on that,” said Nathalie Provost, the state secretary for nature, in French at the House of Commons environment committee. 

In 2024, the Trudeau government introduced the Nature Accountability Act, meant to hold the government accountable for achieving the so-called 30×30 nature targets, along with international commitments through the United Nations.