Stephen Harper, Canada’s 22nd Prime Minister, leader of the Conservative Party of Canada and payed once by the petroleum industry made the flip-flop:
And, more than anything else, Canadians want us to continue moving forward on practical, realistic and achievable strategies for protecting the environment.
Last weeks rollout of our ecoEnergy Initiatives demonstrated our unequivocal commitment to improving air quality, lowering greenhouse gas emissions and living better by consuming smarter.
Prime Minister marks the one-year anniversary of the election - 23 January 2007
5 years ago he wrote this to members of his Canadian Alliance party:
… We’re gearing up for the biggest struggle our party has faced since you entrusted me with the leadership. I’m talking about the ‘battle of Kyoto’ - our campaign to block the job-killing, economy-destroying Kyoto Accord.
It would take more than one letter to explain what’s wrong with Kyoto, but here are a few facts about this so-called ‘Accord’:
- It’s based on tentative and contradictory scientific evidence about climate trends.
- It focuses on carbon dioxide, which is essential to life, rather than upon pollutants.
- Canada is the only country in the world required to make significant cuts in emissions. Third World countries are exempt, the Europeans get credit for shutting down inefficient Soviet-era industries, and no country in the Western hemisphere except Canada is signing.
- Implementing Kyoto will cripple the oil and gas industry, which is essential to the economies of Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia.
- As the effects trickle through other industries, workers and consumers everywhere in Canada will lose. THERE ARE NO CANADIAN WINNERS UNDER THE KYOTO ACCORD.
- The only winners will be countries such as Russia, India, and China, from which Canada will have to buy emissions credits. Kyoto is essentially a socialist scheme to suck money out of wealth-producing nations. …
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