Tarnishing the Maple Leaf
Posted On December 1, 2009
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0 How the tar sands drive Canada’s climate positions.
Canada once had an international reputation as a clean, green country with progressive environmental policies. But when it comes to the positions and actions of the Government of Canada on global warming, today nothing could be further from the truth. No other government has simply walked away from its Kyoto Protocol targets while embarking on a massive increase in global warming pollution – up more than 26 per cent since 1990 at a time when Canada was supposed to be reducing emissions by six per cent.1