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I’m a little late coming to this, but while reading through some CBC news stories from earlier in the week I came across this.  What a joke.  Environment minister Jim Prentice tells us that Canadian climate change legislation is several years off and that there is no way forward until both a cross border agreement with the US and and international treaty to replace Kyoto are completed.  Of course an international accord is needed.  Of course a deal with our American partners is needed.  None of these is a barrier to Canada moving forward in trying to meet goals that we have already set out.

When I was writing about this issue earlier, I hedged my initial skepticism towards the Prime Ministers comments from overseas.  Harper’s statement that a global coalition is needed to create real progress on the climate change issue, while correct, smelled like a delay tactic to me.  Being that the Conservatives have tabled specific goals (be they correct or not is not for me to speculate on) my view was that the most important step was still to be taken; developing legislation to realize these goals.  It seems like there is no such luck, at least so far.

With the Americans actually moving forward on enacting laws on this front (a bill has passed the House and it’s expected to be taken up by the Senate in the new year) what is the real cause for Canada’s seemingly continued ambivalence?  More likely than not it does stem from something nefarious, but rather apathy.  It’s time to move forward.

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