On interested parties

Hands up if you can spot what's missing from Jim Prentice's decision-making process when it comes to greenhouse gas emission regulations:

Ottawa announced the broad framework of its proposed greenhouse gas regulations two years ago, and would require companies to cut their carbon emissions in relation to their actual output rather than to specified levels.

It has yet to produce reduction targets for different industries, or the detailed regulations that are to come into force in 2010. Mr. Prentice said he hopes to unveil those rules before November, as he works to satisfy the Americans, on the one hand, and oil-producing provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan on the other.

That's right: it's the vast majority of Canada, which Cons apparently see as having absolutely no interest in the results of any emissions policy. Which is why they're now using the position of the developed world's most notorious climate-change laggard as the higher boundary of what they're prepared to put in place, and pumping up the interests of the oil industry to further attack even that position.