Yesterday, John Baird dismissed carbon taxes and international carbon trading market as ways of dealing with Canada's greenhouse gas emissions.
Instead, he suggested the government would rather spend the money in Canada.
Only two days after calling for bipartisan action on climate change, he declared "we don't sit around the cabinet table dreaming up ways to increase taxes. That's certainly more common in the McGuinty family than it is in the Harper cabinet."
Today, a coalition of opposition parties pushed The Kyoto Protocol Implementation Act through its third reading in Parialment. The proposal calls on Canada to meet its Kyoto commitment by reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 6% below 1990 levels by 2012.
Amidst the poltical tension, Canada's online community discussed the issues of the day.
Free Dominion, -the voice of principled Conservatism"- discussed the chances that John Baird was gay.
While two bloggers argued over his everpresent green tie.
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you know, I actually like Baird's idea of a canadian-based carbon trading market ... just imagine the kind of huge payouts from Alberta companies to people in Newfoundland, PEI, the Yukon , parts of Ontario etc ... isn't it true that that province is responsbile for more than half of Canada's greenhouse emissions?
I don't like how Baird commented on a committee member's family..it smacks of 'gutter' politics, the kind that has no place in any serious discussion of environmental pollution, it almost trivializes the problem. On the other hand, I think you should question more the credibility of the 'frank' source than you do .. I hope you are not saying that their accusation is anything more than gutter politics also...as I said earlier, there is no place in the climate change discussion for personal accusations about family or sexual orientation. imho :-)
Franly ( feminine equiv of frankly), I just don't trust the Tories..I think they are in the back pocket of western oil companies.. Harper is Canada's version of Dick Cheney.
about that green tie ... isn't it kind of symbolic that in your blog you show a picture of Baird with a yellow coat and open shirt - no tie and now he's wearing a GREEN TIE ..
it's like he woke up one morning and said 'oh yeah, the ENVIRONMENT..I get it now!'
You can change a zebra's stripes but it's still a zebra , and this zebra still has the interests of the big oil companies wagging its tail , the way I see it anyway ...
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