The Bloc Québécois is first out of the gate to announce that they will be trying to run a carbon-neutral campaign. Just as it did during the last general election, the Bloc will pay a third-party firm to offset each tonne of greenhouse gas emissions produced by the BQ's campaign tour.
Bloc leader Gilles Duceppe uses the occasion of making this announcement to point out how difficult it can be to actually calculate his campaign's carbon footprint because there are no clear benchmarks for emissions produced by the manufacturers of the three buses that will carry BQ types around la belle province for the next 38 days.
“Ceci réaffirme la nécessité d’imposer, comme nous le proposons dans notre plateforme, des normes d’étiquetage écoénergétique pour les véhicules neufs et usagers vendus au Canada,” Duceppe said.
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