One Tonne Challenge Cancelled
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto 
on 04. 3.06
Hmmm. New Canadian Prime Minister Harper goes pyramid climbing in Cancun with George Bush last week, and the day he returns the One Tonne Challenge, a clever program to promote awareness of greenhouse gases and climate change, is cancelled. Coincidence? Conspiracy? Did they hang out reading Michael Crichton books to each other? We wonder. ::Globe and Mail
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no lloyd they dont read books that large. too many big words... And in fact much of the funding for green projects across canada missed the deadline last month to get refunded. this sux in a huge way.
funny though, we're in for even more sickiness here, no one really paid much attention to it (dont know why) but before the Harpie clamped down on his MPs spewing too much idiocy, good 'ol Rona (misister of environment & head of kyoto no less) wrote a letter to the editor of the Toronto Star, not many other media outlets picked it up.. but seriously, SHE SAID THAT KYOTO IS FLAWED UNREALISTIC AND UNATAINBLE(!) and that there are oter schemes worth looking into (like Bush's beyond kyoto you think? or maybe just extinction...)
not a proud moment for Canadians = (
Well parliment is back in session starting today so i expect that the NDP will hopefully bring this up, maybe even the liberals.
The thing i dont understand is that the election we had 2 years ago had a lot of attention on the environment where as this one didn't really have any mention of the environment agenda other than the Green Party obviously and some mention from the NDP.
Like was mentioned by many other posts the government is in the drivers seat for making environmental things happen, and i see the biggest problem with our current situation is not that the conservitaves are leading the minority government but that the entire voting system itself is flawed. I heard a radio show last week on the cbc about the green party getting a new leader(which is good), but it then did a comparison: Green had 4.5% of the vote and no seats and the Bloq had 10% of the vote and 51 seats(out of like 250 ish). I think the biggest hurdle right now for environmentalism is cleaning up the electoral system. Bring in proportional voting then we could potentaily see some greenies get some seats, at which point we have a hope of seeing something happen.
As for the states...
My thought as awlays; We wont see any real changes until government is involved.