People around the world celebrated "greenness" in various ways this weekend.
While St.Patrick's day enthusiasts drank green beer, John Baird met with international environment ministers at a climate change conference in Germany.
Baird dismissed a green plan put forward by Liberal leader Stephane Dion on Friday and promised a tough new climate change plan by the end of the month.
"I think that the kind of initiatives that Canada will roll out are going to be among the toughest in the world for the next five years," Baird said in a teleconference from Potsdam, Germany.
Despite the Canadian government's refusal to participate in an international carbon trading scheme, its inaction was not considered the biggest threat to the global environment by the conference's attendees.
Instead, a consensus emerged among the G8 countries that the U.S. was to blame for not taking up it role as global leader on the climate change issue and the Conservatives can celebrate upholding their green facade.
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I am greatly disturbed by the ability of the conservatives to pay lip-service to the pressing environmental issues facing our country. I am glad that there are many journalists continuing to critique their inaction, but I am demoralized regarding the success that the Conservatives are having in dispelling the inertia (Jay Thistle's word) started by Al Gore's movie and the warm part of the early winter. It appears that voters merely need to be comforted that the government is doing something, they don't actually demand real results.
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