Canada’s withdrawal from the Kyoto protocol is official:
Environment Minister Peter Kent announced Monday that Canada will withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol. Kent made the announcement at a news conference in the foyer of the House of Commons.
“We are invoking Canada’s legal right to formally withdraw from Kyoto,” Kent said Monday.
The timing of the announcement is interesting. Radical environmentalists are already down in the dumps over the failure of COP17, and now they’ve take a kick to the plums from the Canucks. That sound you hear is David Suzuki’s head exploding. No doubt he’ll want to toss the government in jail for this.
Stephane Dion, failed green hero of the Liberal Party, is mad as hell:
“The Conservatives will do their best to always avoid taking any responsibility,” said Dion, who chaired the UN’s climate change conference in 2005 in Montreal, where he helped extend Kyoto until 2012.
But Dion is part of the reason Canada is withdrawing. The Chretien Liberals ratified Kyoto, and then promptly did nothing for to ensure the agreed-to targets could be met. Dion was the Environment Minister for 2 years, and did nothing. Dion and his Liberal cohorts signed Kyoto to pretend they were good global citizens, but that was as far as their ambition went. Because it would miss its Kyoto targets, Canada faced potential fines in the billions. That threat goes away with the nation’s withdrawal from the doomed Protocol.
Hippies have no-one but themselves to blame for making it politically easy for Canada to ditch Kyoto faster than a speeding bullet train. Green activists have already demonized the politest nation in the world as a red-eyed, carbon-spewing monster merely for having the temerity to exploit its natural resources. Now Canada has become the first nation to withdraw from Kyoto, and the greens are full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
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mitchell44: first the Conservatives saved the 100-watt light bulbs, then they ditched Kyoto. You may not have to hold your breath too long before they blow the whole farce out of the water.
Great stuff Canada,lets hope the rest of the world shows the same intelligence as you.
Simply stated ‘Its the Hypocrisy Stupid’….. Which right minded individual who could reason and resolve the issues would submit to the socialist ideas presented by the ‘wermists???
sirs:
good for canada. may others follow suit, right now.
and, this is as i predicted, pretty close to two years ago. http://wintersoldier2008.typepad.com/summer_patriot_winter_sol/2009/12/old-mother-hubbards-bare-old-dilapidated-cupboard-an-allegory-the-perils-of-doing-business-with-the-.html .
a little poem, just for the greenie weenies.
john jay
wintersoldier2008
I even sent Mr Kent, PM Harper and my local MP a “thumbs up” for this action, told them it was a nice first step in leadership away from the global insanity.
Now, in step 2, they drop the “carbon pollution” line also….., but I’m not holding my breath.
A great day to one of the Clan of the Great White North.
David Suzuki is a complete nutter and national idiot.
Dion named his dog Kyoto, which is the only thing he ever did about Kyoto.
And Lizzie May must be soooooooooo sad.
Too bad Lizzie, your great Greenie Grifter carbon scam has fizzled out, just like the CO2 in a glass of pop.
A proud day to be a Canadian. Oh, brc? We’re working on that Conservative gov’t. down here. Shouldn’t take too long.
UN troops? Don’t give them ideas Come on you canucks! Strangely, i haven’t seen any mentionedCanada refusing to see the Greenie emperor’s new clothes in the UK MSM yet.
I wait with baited breath for Green Party MP Elizabeth May to provide her usual inspiring response to this development.
An excellent precedent, to be sure. Expect other nations to follow.
However, one thing that has never been explained to me is this:
Canada was to be on the hook for billions in fines for not meeting Kyoto targets. Fine – that’s what was in the agreement that the patsies signed up to.
But, in reality, who was going to force them to pay up the billions in climate reparations? What applicable court can really force a sovereign nation like Canada to pay up? Any nation sufficiently uncommitted enough to not meet the targets is a nation not particularly inclined to pay up.
I guess what I’m trying to say is this : do any of these agreements really have any teeth? If I don’t pay my taxes I go to jail. If I I try smuggling drugs my property gets seized. But who enforces the Kyoto protocol? If you don’t pay up, I’d say all you’ll get is a tongue-lashing by some Greens with knotted brows and knotted hair. It’s not like white-helmeted UN troops are going to invade and annex the tourist revenues from Niagara Falls or anything.
Now all Australia needs is a conservative government inclined to give two-fingers to the Kyoto protocol again. Not that it matters, given it runs out soon anyway.
Way to go Canada, we salute you!!!