Leadership With The Operative Word Being Leader

Bruce deals with the reality while Reverend Bruce doesn't want to face that reality which is that many are making promises that they cannot realistically and financially keep.

The Perfect is the Enemy of the Good

I was struck by the sheer common sense shown by the Prime Minister in signing on to the Asia Pacific climate change approach in place of the Kyoto Protocol. These days, it is often difficult to find a national leader who is willing to expose himself to the ridicule of failing to fall in line behind the shibboleths of the day. Werner Patels today reported, for instance, on the outright political manoeuvrings of the Friends of the Earth to enforce the Kyoto line, and goodness knows the Liberals continue to beat the Kyoto drum, as do the NDP and the Bloc.

Interesting to note that last night, when the Globe & Mail put their survey for the day up, it was running strongly in favour of Kyoto, but by mid-afternoon Pacific time Kyoto adherence had fallen behind the curve - in fact, there is a clear majority for the Prime Minister's position, or some position between it and Kyoto's targets.

Posted by Bruce Stewart at 16:12

Mr. Harper Goes to New York
Contributed by: Reverend Blair

Stephen Harper went to address the UN on climate change with one thing in mind. He went to further the neo-conservative agenda to keep dumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Harper, an opponent of Kyoto and, until recently, a global warming denier, has become the point man for George Bush and John Howard to dismantle the Kyoto process.

That process is something that the Harper government claimed to support, even as they were cutting funding to programs to reduce global warming and refusing hard targets in favour of intensity-based targets.

Hard targets are what Kyoto is really based on, so when Stephen Harper or John Baird claims to support the Kyoto process while insisting on intensity-based targets, they are being less than honest. Intensity-based targets are dishonest in themselves. While claiming to reduce emissions, they really allow for emissions to increase as long as there’s a profit to be made. The earth’s climate systems are not, of course, interested to Mr. Harper’s credo of greed over common sense or his contradictory claims about the Kyoto process.