Canada has become the first country to officially withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol. Long a stand-out in its foot-dragging approach to any kind of pollution abatement policy, Canadian environment policy is today totally in the hands of Big Oil.
Environment Minister Peter Kent made it official today;
"To meet the targets under Kyoto for 2012 would be the equivalent of removing every car, truck, all-terrain vehicle, tractor, ambulance, police car and vehicle off every kind of Canadian road."
Well, not really, but the statement does demonstrate the same flare for hyperbole that has become the hallmark of the Harper government.
When they want to drastically increase spending on police and prisons when crime rates are at their lowest rates in fifty years, they invent a new category; "unreported crime."
When they gleefully commit to the bombardment of Libya, they claim that the bombs are not actually bombs, but "projectiles of democratic values."
And when native Canadians are at risk of freezing to death in Attawapiskat, they send in an accountant to find out why the natives haven't been spending their money wisely.
Welcome to Harper's Canada.
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