I was looking at the Canadian Kyoto site and we haven't done as badly as we might think.
Back when Chretien first ratified Kyoto I said something along the lines of, "He got it half right because ratifying Kyoto was the right thing to do but Chretien has no plan." Paul Martin was integral to that as Finance Minister.
That's when I first started pushing for Canada to adopt a plan. I was making the point then, and I'm still making the point now, that targeted tax breaks on energy efficient building materials (take the GST off of insulation, fer Chrissakes) along with a real advertising/educational campaign (worked in the 70s) would do a lot of good. Follow that up with increased taxes for unneccesary gaz guzzlers (the example I used was my big green truck, which wouldn't have been taxed when I needed it for business, but would have been taxed once I closed my business) being used to subsidize hybrids and alternative fuel vehicles.
Martin and Chretien could have had that in place almost a decade ago. Instead, I'm still arguing for the same things.
While Canada is not doing as badly as the numbers would indicate because we do have several major aspects about to come on-line, there is absofuckinglutely no reason why we are as far behind as we are now.
Of course it can easily be argued that we'd be further along had the Reform/Alliance/Conservatives not worked so hard to obstruct every attempt at advancement. Special kudos to Monte Solberg, Bob Mills (I know somebody who went to university with Mills, so I have it on good authority Mills' mother should have aborted) and Stephen Harper for their obstructionist crap over the years. We can also thnk Ralph Klein, who has made a habit of ignoring real science while the oil companies filled his pockets.
In the end though, it is the Liberals who could have instituted initiatives that had us much farther down the road to reducing emissions than we are. Paul Martin played a mjor part in keeping us off of that road.
