Today, The Honourable John Godfrey, P.C., M.P., the Member for Don Valley West and the Intergovernmental Affairs Critic for Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition is drawing attention to a report from the C.D. Howe Institute, which contends that the strategy that the previous Government of Canada had introduced would have brought Canada within eighty per cent of its targets under the Kyoto Accord.
However, under the leadership of The Right Honourable Stephen Harper, P.C., M.P., the Member for Calgary Southwest and the Prime Minister of Canada, the present Government of Canada has ended many of the programs that had been associated with the Accord, and is reported to wish to opt Canada into the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate, which does not set targets for its member nations.
The report from the C.D. Howe Institute indicates that Canada could have reduced its emissions under the plans of the previous Government by up to 92.5 mega-tonnes; however, under the new strategy advocated by the Conservative Party of Canada, the report contends that Canada's emissions would be reduced by only 2-4 mega-tonnes.
From the information that The Honourable Rona Ambrose, P.C., M.P., the Member for Edmonton—Spruce Grove and the Minister of the Environment has presented the nation through her responses in the House of Commons, one must conclude that the Government has no major strategy whatsoever in relation to combatting climate change. Our Prime Minister, himself, questions the science of climate change, and his actions have led me to believe that he does not see any danger to this phenomenon.
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However, under the leadership of The Right Honourable Stephen Harper, P.C., M.P., the Member for Calgary Southwest and the Prime Minister of Canada, the present Government of Canada has ended many of the programs that had been associated with the Accord, and is reported to wish to opt Canada into the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate, which does not set targets for its member nations.
The report from the C.D. Howe Institute indicates that Canada could have reduced its emissions under the plans of the previous Government by up to 92.5 mega-tonnes; however, under the new strategy advocated by the Conservative Party of Canada, the report contends that Canada's emissions would be reduced by only 2-4 mega-tonnes.
From the information that The Honourable Rona Ambrose, P.C., M.P., the Member for Edmonton—Spruce Grove and the Minister of the Environment has presented the nation through her responses in the House of Commons, one must conclude that the Government has no major strategy whatsoever in relation to combatting climate change. Our Prime Minister, himself, questions the science of climate change, and his actions have led me to believe that he does not see any danger to this phenomenon.
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1. Click here for the Web site of the Liberal Party of Canada.