I’d say Terrence Corcoran of the Financial Post hit the nail right on the Kyoto head, but Kyoto is a nail without a head. In fact it’s not a nail, it’s a royal screw.
Now you can call that a pained stretching of hyperbole or metaphor, but the whole point of Kyoto seems to be “who cares what’s actually ‘right’?”
Corcoran has obviously read the report and understands “common sense”, so he can’t be a liberal.
There’s nothing new in the Liberal Kyoto Plan released yesterday, but it’s still a startling eye-opener. We all knew there would be a $1-billion Climate Fund and a Partnership Fund and a $200-million Wind Power Production Incentive and a slew of other programs, initiatives and regulations. What we couldn’t appreciate, until it was all assembled yesterday in a single monster document, is the mind-blowing madness behind Kyoto. Only by looking at the whole plan, half-baked though it is, does this mass exercise in collective insanity become clear.
And just when you needed confirmation that it’s a liberal-left government we have here (you didn’t), he offers this:
What will it take to blow up Ottawa’s fixation on meeting its Kyoto Protocol targets? Yesterday’s plan, unveiled by Environment Minister Stephane Dion, could well be the bomb that triggers the end of the political process set in motion in 1997 by Jean Chretien at an international climate meeting in Kyoto.
Never mind the specific plans and schemes unveiled by Mr. Dion and estimated “in the range of $10-billion.” These programs are unlikely to come into existence, and would not work if they did. Never mind the gaping holes in the program and the long list of unfinished initiatives. The plan fails to deliver any meaningful estimates of current or future carbon emissions. Even the regulatory framework under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act is left dangling.
Oh—still not convinced? Bear in mind I’ve supplied copious scientific articles and columns right here on these pages debunking the stupid Kyoto accord. But please, read on—this web page is not printed on paper after all—and hey!—that happened on its own without any regulations!:
Also wrapped into the plan is a summary of how Ottawa plans to approach the post-Kyoto period, beginning in 2012. This is also old news, but to see it there in print is more than a little disconcerting. The post-Kyoto plan has been assigned to the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy, an “independent” agency stacked with prime ministerial appointments, including a new chairman, former Winnipeg mayor Glenn Murray. Also fresh to the Round Table are an assortment of mushy corporate types, including Robert Schad, green founder of Husky Injection Molding, and Audrey McLaughlin, former NDP leader.
Who these people are is less important than what they are to do. They are to produce advice on a long-term energy strategy that “sets the course for the 21st century economy to 2030-2050.” And when they’ve got that ironed out, they are to “consider options” for greenhouse gas reductions for the periods “beyond to 2050-2080.”
When the Canadian economy is to be planned out to 2080 based on the advice of the likes of Glenn Murray, Audrey McLaughlin and Robert Schad, you know it is past time to put an end to the madness that is Kyoto.
You still aren’t convinced are you? That’s what makes Canada, Canada.
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