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CAN Canada is looking for the best letters to the editor on the Harper government’s plans to deal with air pollution and climate change. Send your letters to CAN at info@climateactionnetwork.ca indicating:

- The newspaper (or newspapers) you sent your letter to
- The date you sent your letter
- Your name, city, province and telephone number

The CAN editorial staff will read your letter and if we like it we will post it to our site. If we receive several letters we really like, we will select one at the end of the month and award that person a vintage Climate Action Tour 2006 t-shirt!

Mock-up of the official vintage Climate Action Tour 2006 t-shirt. A t-shirt like this could be yours!

Please note that by sending your letter to the editor to CAN Canada, you are agreeing that it may be posted to the Climate Action Canada web site (climateactionnetwork.ca and reseauactionclimat.ca).

Letters may be edited for reasons of space or grammer. Letters posted to the site will include name, city and province (telephone numbers will not be posted).

Letters to Editors

2007

• August 28, 2007 - “... our detailed analysis uncovered many loopholes and unanswered questions in the government's proposed regulatory framework, forcing us to conclude there is little chance of meeting its 2012 and 2020 emission-reduction targets.”
  
  
• August 27, 2007 - “It isn’t called 'the climate crisis' for nothing and every poll that is done shows the same, extremely high levels of public support for solid action.”
  
  
• January 12, 2007 - “... it would have been even better if he showed us he understood the science rather than the polls.”
  
  

2006

• December 17, 2006 - “(Mr. Harper ...) you continue to ignore climate change, the greatest challenge to our survival on this planet. Tragically, it is other species less mobile and adaptable than ourselves who are feeling the impacts first."
  
  
• November 17, 2006 - “Though obviously imperfect, the Kyoto Accord was a remarkable achievement in the challenging and confusing mire of international negotiations and remains the best tool we currently have for addressing climate change at the international level."
  
  
• November 2, 2006 - “(The) Canadian auto industry already has the technological expertise to build cars that cause much less carbon pollution, but it hasn’t voluntarily made these improvements in the past."
  
  
• October 24, 2006 - “What matters is that human emissions have caused atmospheric CO₂ to soar more than 25 per cent above the highest naturally occurring level during the past 800,000 years."
  
  
• October 19, 2006 - “Prime Minister Harper’s essential message is: 'Let’s leave it to the next generation of Canadians to get us out of this mess.' ”
  
  
• October 17, 2006 - “Canada, once seen as an international leader on environmental issues, now ranks near the bottom of a 33 country OECD ranking on environmental protection and resource use”
  
  
• October 17, 2006 - “Could this week’s announcements be anything but a delaying tactic?”
  
  
• October 13, 2006 - “Like Canada, Norway is a northern country with an advanced industrial economy and oil exports. Why is our environment minister’s attitude to climate change so different from Norway’s?”
  
  
• October 12, 2006 - "For the youth of today, our environmental situation is as grave as the cold war was to the previous generation. How can our governments endorse activities which harm us?"
  
  
• October 11, 2006 - “Lots of Bushes will help shrub together a consultative process that will delay anything happening for a long time”