Canada: Sick Man of the Environmental Movement
Editorial, The Toronto Star | November 10, 2009
Whilst European leaders and the US Congress are making extraordinary efforts to bridge the carbon gap, Canada has been painfully silent in the run-up to Copenhagen. ++ Canada has not developed a plausible policy, or a road map for attaining objectives. ++ Environment minister Jim Prentice has criticized an independent report on the implications of carbon pricing whilst being reluctant to release his department's internal figures. ++ "Increasingly, Canada looks like the sick man of the environmental movement."
