Apparently Canadians will not be skipping to the bank come June.
Reuters (and others) reported that Canada's minority Conservative government backed away from legal confrontation by promising to obey a law obliging it to lay out how Ottawa will meet targets for cuts to greenhouse gas emissions dictated by the Kyoto protocol.
This, only a day after Prime Minister Harper and his merry band had promised to ignore the measure (citing a poorly constructed law...what is that old idiom about a poor workman who blames his tools?)
Apparently the media is saying that:
The environment -- a topic the opposition sees as the Conservatives' weak spot -- is set to be a key issue in the next federal election, which some political observers and insiders say could be called in the next few months.
The House of Commons adopted the bill on Wednesday in the latest clash over green issues between opposition legislators and the minority government, which says Canada cannot meet its Kyoto targets.
Woa...apparently even toothless tigers (Harper's phrase when criticizing the opposition bill because it did not provide economic incentives to off set the agony of meeting Kyoto targets) have bite.
I love my Canada.
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