Canada Pulls Out of the Kyoto Protocol

[History_Buff]

I could afford that, but a lot of families wouldn't.. not in these tough economic times.

Well, keeping in mind that it wouldn't be levied as $500/person (since many of those people are children/elderly-sans-income/unemployed), it really wouldn't be that bad for most folks.

Of course, it would never have happened; paying it would be political suicide for Harper. Still the right thing to do though.

 

[Pangur Bán]

Canada has been blocking any attempt at improving the environment situation, and widely denounced by just about every environmentalist organisation (rightly so) for the past half-decade.

I don't know how we could possibly have a good reputation for environment, let alone be a role-model, at this point.

Being a role-model means that people copy you when you are bad as well as good. That's the point. But everything good Canada does makes things a little harder for the corporate gangster set-up they got running down south.

 

[History_Buff]

I can see how you'd think that, but they're pretty good at ignoring us most of the time.

 

[Lord_Iggy]

Stereotypes paint us as progressive and environmentalist and nature-loving, but we have a lot of nature because a lot of our land is kind of bad for large-scale human habitation.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Anybody wondering if Peter Kent will acknowledge what a stupid thing he said in Parliament to the NDP MP who was asking a question about this? He sneered at her, chiding her for not having attended Durban, but the Opposition MPs weren't allowed to go!

Justin Trudeau said it for all of us: "Oh, you piece of <censored>!"

 

[Lord_Iggy]

Good for him.

 

[aronnax]

This piece of news depresses me. I never liked the excuse that it is okay to do something because other people are doing it too.