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Of the prime minister’s 127,147 kilometers of air travel last June, 50,680 kilometers – about 40 percent – have been completed in the last seven weeks alone.
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April 21, 2022 • 3 hours ago • 4 minutes reading • 203 comments Prime Minister Justin Trudeau embarks on a flight to Europe on March 6, 2022 – to accumulate some of the 127,147 kilometers he has flown in less than a year . Photo by Adrian Wild / Canadian Press / file
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As energy prices skyrocket and Canadians are warned to make better decisions ahead of the impending climate crisis, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has flown 127,147 kilometers aboard a government plane in the past 10 months.
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One year of publicly available flight data reviewed by the National Post revealed that the prime minister recorded airtime – the equivalent of about three trips around the Earth – between his first trip since the blockade in June 2021 and this Wednesday when Trudeau landed in Waterloo. Ontario, as part of his tour of the country, which examines the federal budget for 2022.
The prime minister has curtailed official travel during much of the pandemic, resuming a flight on June 8, 2021, to London, Ont, to attend a memorial service for members of the Afzaal family – killed two days earlier in what is believed to be that is motivated by a hate attack.
Unlike other members of government and ministers, who are largely inclined to fly for commercial purposes, Canada restricts the prime minister to military aircraft.
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While the planes operate under the call sign CANFORCE ONE, when the prime minister is on board, the travel of executive directors to Canada comes in one of two forms.
For domestic travel, the prime minister usually flies with one of the Bombardier Challenger 650 fleets, commanded by 412 transport squadrons based at Ottawa Airport.
International flights are operated by 437 transport squadrons, which support a fleet of CC-150 Polaris aircraft configured for passengers – military versions of the Airbus A310 – to transport the Prime Minister, officials and the press around the world.
(This is) another of these contradictions of Trudeau’s
So far, 2022 has been a busy year for Trudeau.
Of the prime minister’s 127,147 kilometers of air travel last June, 50,680 kilometers – about 40 percent – have been completed in the last seven weeks alone.
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The prime minister’s first trip in 2022 was a nine-hour stop in Mississauga, Ont., On March 4 to announce a $ 675 million investment in the city’s transit program.
The prime minister has boarded the 363-kilometer Ottawa / Toronto flight 11 times in the last 10 months.
Another of the Prime Minister’s favorite short-haul routes are Ottawa and Montreal, traveling the 152-kilometer route seven times since June 2021.
His shortest flight was 89 km on November 26, 2021 from Abbotsford, British Columbia, to Victoria, while the longest was the March 11 flight of 6,588 km from Warsaw, Poland, to Ottawa.
His longest domestic flight was the first stage of his controversial vacation on September 30, 2021, where he and his family quietly flew 3,889 km. to Tofino, British Columbia – despite his official route, which lists him as attending private meetings in Ottawa and while Canadians gathered to watch the country’s first Day of Truth and Reconciliation.
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PMO has already updated the Prime Minister’s route from “private meetings” in Ottawa to “private meetings” in Tofino, British Columbia pic.twitter.com/hzIlVuFBoV
– 𝘽𝙧𝙮𝙖𝙣 𝙋𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙛𝙞𝙪𝙢𝙚 (@BryanPassifiume) September 30, 2021
The prime minister’s three separate trips to British Columbia in two weeks were notable, including his decision to fly west for an Easter holiday trip to Whistler shortly after returning from a budget tour of Western Canada.
On April 8, the prime minister left Ottawa on a 415-kilometer flight to Hamilton, Ont., Advertising his budget housing initiatives.
Returning to Ottawa later that afternoon, he left for Victoria on April 10, flying 3,585 kilometers before the full schedule of communications the next day, including government investment in electric vehicle infrastructure.
That evening, he flew 861 kilometers to Edmonton, where the next morning he promoted tax cuts for small businesses in his budget, met with members of the Ukrainian and Afghan communities and offered to invest in green technology.
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Flying 2,989 kilometers from Edmonton to Montreal, the prime minister hosted an early morning budget photo in Laval, Quebec, on April 13.
As the prime minister completed his final commitment for the day – having a press conference with Laval Mayor Stefan Boyer – crews were preparing to leave later that afternoon to transport the prime minister and family to Vancouver for a spring ski trip to Whistler.
Bruce Campbell, an associate professor at the University of York’s Faculty of Environmental Research, told the National Post that this was not the first time the government had taken confusingly controversial paths when proposing a new environmental policy.
“(This is) another of Trudeau’s contradictions, for example when his government declared a state of emergency in the field of climate and then announced that it was buying a pipeline or had recently presented its climate plan implemented in the 2022 budget and beyond. approved an offshore oil development project, despite recent warnings from the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), “he told the National Post.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is on a government plane en route to Washington for the White House meetings on November 17, 2021 in Ottawa. Photo by Adrian Wild / Canadian Press / file
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Environmental groups erupted earlier this month over their approval of a controversial $ 12 billion Bay du Nord offshore drilling project off the coast of Newfoundland – seen as a welcome victory for Canada’s energy sector but another disappointing failure for conservationists.
As the aviation industry continues to net zero emissions, Campbell said the government spends a lot of time praising the benefits of electric vehicles while ignoring significant developments in electric aviation.
Two years ago, BC went down in history after testing the world’s first all-electric commercial aircraft, the Havilland Beaver, an electrically powered seaplane that took off from the Fraser River in a short, five-minute flight.
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While a full charge will keep this aircraft in the air for about an hour, recent advances show that electrifying aviation is not far off.
“Nor have I heard that Trudeau is at least compensating for the carbon footprint of his volume record or whether he can use alternative low-carbon transport for short flights,” Campbell said.
“I have not heard criticism from environmentalists regarding his recordings of air travel.
The use of aircraft by the Prime Minister has been subject to scrutiny before.
Less than two days after a vacation in Florida in 2019, Trudeau quietly returned to Ottawa for meetings before flying back south.
• Email: bpassifiume@postmedia.com | Twitter: bryanpassifiume
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