Canada: Reaching up to touch bottom

Canada’s environmental policy (or lack thereof) has come under scrutiny yet again, this time in Poznan, Poland.  Last week, at the summit that would help determine some of the terms of the follow-up to the Kyoto Protocol, Canada again deferred to the worst polluters in the world and said we couldn’t do something until they did.

I can’t get my head around the stupidity of this philosophy.

This is like saying ‘I can’t pass grade 12 math because my younger brother of 8 years isn’t about to’.  Or ‘I can’t quick smoking because there are at least two or three other people smoking.  If I quit, I’ll insult them’.

Give me a break.

Canada needs to set standards, not follow them.