| Quote: |
| Former U.S. vice-president Al Gore, now one of the world's most famous climate-change activists, has called the federal government's new green plan "a fraud."
Gore criticized the plan while in Toronto on Saturday to attend the Green Living Show and screen his documentary on the environment, An Inconvenient Truth. The Conservatives have said their strategy, introduced earlier in the week, will reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and improve air quality, but Gore said he's heard it all before, south of the border, and he doesn't like what he hears. "I'm hearing a reduction in intensity is going to be presented to the Canadian people as a legitimate policy," he said at the consumer environmental show. "In my opinion, it is a complete and total fraud. It is designed to mislead the Canadian people." Gore said the rest of the world looks to Canada for moral leadership, and that's why news of the plan was so "shocking." Gore also praised Canada's best known environmentalist, David Suzuki, for confronting Environment Minister John Baird on Friday, the first day of the three-day Green Living Show. Suzuki told Baird his plan was a disappointment and doesn't go far enough. |
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/04/28/gore.html
more real news that matters. this post goes along with my other, "Canada and Kyoto" and confirms that maybe i'm not crazy... the fact that canada does play an important moral/leadership role in world goes without saying. so when someone with credibility like Gore, publicly calls the plan a fraud (or as i like to call it an elaborate smoke and light show, its much nicer) and that "It is designed to mislead the Canadian people", what else is left to say? the real question that remains is how will canadians react and how long can the ndp or the bloc prop up this government when they both supposedly have "strong green" ideologies?
Last edited by inphurno on Tue Jun 12, 2007 6:09 pm; edited 1 time in total
