Show me the money: Trudeau's challenge on climate change

OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is back from an appearance at an international climate change conference with a simple question hanging over his head: What now?

A 90-day countdown is underway before Trudeau meets again with Canada's premiers to hammer out a climate-change framework that would guide federal and provincial efforts in meeting the ambitious talk from the Paris conference.

The provinces will be looking to the federal government for money to help pay for their climate-change commitments. But the Liberals have a slew of green spending promises of their own to keep, totalling more than $13 billion in new, green spending over the next four years.

And missing from all of it are the details of what the money will buy and where it will be spent -- details that observers say would spell out whether the government will be able to meet its emission reduction ambitions.

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