…or what I call “stupid Kyoto”. Or sometimes the “Kyoto diocese of the liberal-left fundamentalist religion”. And actually, he can explain it. And it ain’t pretty.
PTBC reader Maureen took a look back and found this commentary on the state-run CBC’s People’s Web Site from back in 2002, in light of the Conservative government’s coming environmental strategies.
It’s by the always interesting Rex Murphy, whom I also refer to as Rex (“what in tarnation is Rex Murphy doing languishing at that ridiculous socialist state-run media outfit and even remotely giving it any credibility at all whatsoever?”) Murphy.
Anyway, hold your nose and go to what I often call the neo-com web site and read his comment from back in 2002. Here’s a snippet:
October 22, 2002
I can’t be certain but I think Kyoto is Japanese for inexplicable.
Why did we sign on to Kyoto? Until the moment the Prime Minister did, it was to most people uncertain whether we were going to or not. There was certainly nothing like a national debate. There was the odd parliamentary exchange but there may not have been even a cabinet consensus.
Kyoto, despite the government’s rhetoric now, was not logically arrived at after a long discussion. It was global policy for Canada on the fly so we didn’t buy into it because we thought about it and debated it properly.
[…] The science, politics, means and value of Kyoto are a basket of uncertainties or insignificance. We signed on mainly because of environmental boy scoutery. It’s Canada putting out its blue box for the rest of the world, a decision taken for its symbolism, not its substance. We’re in free Willy territory here. Our Kyoto policies and the decision to implement Kyoto are more the smog than the one that presumably they want to cure.
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