Saturday, February 24, 2007

"Liberals knew Kyoto a long shot"

Hope fully this comes as no surprise to anyone. After signing on to Kyoto the Liberals then did NOTHING to reach the Kyoto targets (thank goodness for that). It seems obvious that the Liberals treat Kyoto as nothing more than a tool to scare voters into believing the Liberals can save them. My favorite quote in the article is this:

"The signing of the Kyoto Accord in the face of vigorous opposition served to galvanize public opinion to bring it to where it is today in Canada. In the long run that will be far more important than whether we can meet all the short-term deadlines in the accord." - Eddie Goldenberg, one of former prime minister Jean Chrétien's top aides

So the details of Kyoto are not important at all; the only thing that matters is that Canadians have bought into the crap the Liberals are selling. As long as the Liberals can scare enough Canadians into believing that the sky is falling, then Kyoto has worked for Canada.

If, and that is a huge if, humans are the cause of the earth's climate change then we need some real action, not an ad campaign to "galvanize public opinion".

I will give the Liberals credit though, they got it right for once - the best action Canadians can take on the environment is no action!

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