Thursday, April 26, 2007

Not even close

If there was any doubt that the Cons' latest sad excuse for an environmental plan would remain a product of the Alliance anti-Kyoto legacy, consider this. After loudly trumpeting their belief in "Kyoto's principles" while (rightly) slamming the Libs for failing to take action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in 8 years after signing Kyoto, the Cons are not only tearing up the treaty from Canada's end, but also planning to delay for another 18 years before even meeting Canada's first-phase Kyoto targets.

And for all the Cons' talk about the Libs failing to take action for 13 years, even the first set of weak absolute emission targets isn't supposed to come into effect until 14 years after the Cons first took office.

In sum, the Cons have loudly unveiled yet another dud. And hopefully it'll be subject to enough rightful backlash to force the Cons to work with the real emission reduction plan agreed to by the other parties in Parliament.

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