Canada's Environment Minister - Adopting Kyoto Would Produce Post-Soviet Style Collapse Up North

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OTTAWA -- Canada would face economic collapse if the federal government pushed harder to meet its Kyoto targets, Environment Minister John Baird warned yesterday, suggesting the damage would be comparable to Russia's post-Communist fall.

The minister's comments to a Commons committee echoed the doomsday predictions of his predecessor, Rona Ambrose, and left opposition MPs questioning whether the minority Parliament will be able to bridge its political differences on climate change.

Instead of meeting Kyoto's targets, Mr. Baird said, industry will soon have new targets to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions starting in 2010. He also called for Canada and the U.S. Congress to craft tougher rules for vehicle emissions that would be accepted by California, where fuel-economy standards are highest.

Mr. Baird met with Canadian Auto Workers president Buzz Hargrove yesterday and he will be in Alberta today to meet with oil and gas officials as he puts the final touches on his promised regulations.

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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070209.BAIRD09/TPStory/Environment

Did somebody say "hysterical" or "doom-and-gloom"?

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[BayCityProgressive]

1. they will experience

a much bigger collapse than the soviets if they don't stop the path they are on.

[irislake]

3. They must not have read the Pentagon's report or the WTO estimate

of the catastrophic world wide economic consquences of global warming. They are religious fundamentalists and oil folk in the Harper government. This will finish them with the voters come the election. Bush clones can't hope to be popular with Canadians.

I guess they haven't realized that Bush isn't even popular in his own country. Some politicians really DO create their own reality.

[Moby Grape]

2. why does he need help from the US Congress?

Canada is not the US

perhaps he meant 'Parliment'