Julie Dabrusin grew up in Montreal, studied at McGill, and now serves as Canada's Minister of Environment and Climate Change. That means she spends most of her time in Toronto and Ottawa thinking about a city she no longer gets to live in.
That distance, it turns out, has given her a useful perspective: We sat down with her to talk about what Montreal actually gets right when it comes to nature, public space, and urban climate action. Most os all, we wanted to know why more of us should take notice.
Montreal is often described as a city within nature — the mountain, the canal, four very distinct seasons. Why does that kind of access matter in a big city?
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