Pure Comedy Gold: Harper Promises To "Pressure" Bush On Climate Targets

OTTAWA — The Harper government plans to pressure the Bush administration to accept targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions at next week’s G8 summit, even though neither side expects that a new global pact to fight climate change will be in before the end of 2008, Environment Minister John Baird said Thursday

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n the Commons, Prime Minister Stephen Harper associated his own environmental policies with the ambitious goals and standards set by European countries to crack down on the global warming pollution. “Next week we do have the G8 where, as you know, Canada and several of the European countries favour targets for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions,” Harper said. “I would also note that as part of the G8 meeting, there is the G8 outreach, the G8 5, where most of the world’s major emitters will be around one table. So I hope we would have the opportunity to discuss the matter then.”

In addition to Canada, the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Japan, Russia and Italy, five fast-emerging economies will participate in summit talks.

But Liberal environment critic David McGuinty said he doubts the international community would take Harper and his delegation seriously after the Conservatives abandoned Canada’s international obligations under the Kyoto Protocol. “The idea that they’re now going ingratiate themselves, or insert themselves as honest brokers for the United States or the European Union, is absurd,” said McGuinty.

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http://www.canada.com/topics/news/politics/story.html?id=c1257677-b786-4bec-8274-cf10ddf936ae&k=35962

And none of the other parties seem to give a rats ass what the Conservatives are doing to Canada... Their needs to be a non-confidence vote in the house, but the problem with that is who takes charge when all is said and done?

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The conservatives are the joke!