Some in Canada will think it perfectly appropriate that Canadian governments have paid little heed to Canada’s environment commissioner annual warnings that Canada just hasn’t been getting it done when it comes to climate change. Others will find this review depressing that we have not got it done on climate change.
Whatever your view: Given the fact that we’ve had five general elections since 2000 (2 won by the Liberals, three by the Conservatives) and no party has been punished for failing to meet their own targets, it’s pretty clear that our politicians have gotten the message about how much heed they should pay the Environment Commissioner:
Enviro Commish in 1999: "Canada failed to meet its commitments flowing from the Earth Summit." http://t.co/6kPoE3d3Zt
— David Akin (@davidakin) October 7, 2014
EC in 2001: “gap related to achieving Canada’s … target widened while the time remaining to achieve it narrowed”. http://t.co/bDBSd4uszN
— David Akin (@davidakin) October 7, 2014
EC in 2006: “Govt has yet to create an effective governance structure for managing its climate change activities.” http://t.co/ilACdAu3Dj
— David Akin (@davidakin) October 7, 2014
EC 2008: “Estimates of greenhouse gas emission reductions under the Trust Fund are flawed and unverifiable” http://t.co/BtYoePRDBc
— David Akin (@davidakin) October 7, 2014
EC 2009: “climate change plans do not fully meet the requirements of [Kyoto Protocol]” http://t.co/So8wGX3J4y
— David Akin (@davidakin) October 7, 2014
EC 2011: “annual climate change plans are not in compliance with the [Kyoto Protocol] Act” http://t.co/i4TaEuW6f2
— David Akin (@davidakin) October 7, 2014
EC 2011: “annual climate change plans are not in compliance with the [Kyoto Protocol] Act” http://t.co/i4TaEuW6f2
— David Akin (@davidakin) October 7, 2014
EC 2012: “Canada will not meet its greenhouse gas emissions target initially agreed to under the Kyoto Protocol” http://t.co/kVkeUNb5Gw
— David Akin (@davidakin) October 7, 2014
Guess what the Environment Commissioner is telling Canadians today?
#NewsNOW in NPT: Environment Commissioner speaks about annual report.
— David Akin (@davidakin) October 7, 2014
Want to know why this government doesn’t have a plan to meet GHG targets? watch for the widespread outrage at this report.
— Andrew Leach (@andrew_leach) October 7, 2014
Ontario now has close to 7000 wind turbines. You can’t be serious when you say the government doesn’t believe in what is it, Global Cooling, the Coming Ice Age, Global Warming, Extreme Weather?