..didn't see this one coming.
Rona, We Hardly Knew Ya

Perhaps, I was a little too hasty with my open arm bearhug to new minister of environment and head of the UNFCCC (i.e. Kyoto). Sure, we will have to see, but a letter to the editor in yesterday's Toronto Star was certainly foreboding.... So without further ago, here's her letter-to-the-editor:

(((Regarding))) "Plan to extend Kyoto on way," (((Toronto Star)) Feb. 25. The above article misrepresented Canada's position on Kyoto. As Canada's new environment minister, my mandate is to clean up Canada's air, water and soil and I will consider any mechanism available to me to fulfill this urgent mandate. ((it's nice to consider options, but what about uphold the one's we've already signed? like the Montreal Accord, or the um, what's it called?)) Our position remains that the Kyoto ((oh! That's it!! The Kyoto)) accord is seriously flawed and that the emissions targets it imposes on Canada are unrealistic and unattainable.(((oh, ok, so now after all that nice talk, the true colours come out. So it's "unrealistic and unattainable", so why not just look at Bush's new Beyond Kyoto. But you know what Rona? That's total bullshit. We can go WAY beyond these infinitessimal emission caps tomorrow if you showed some hustle and initiative... Simply putting these on every coal plant will cut emissions by 80-90% from all coal fired electrical plants. Now! So cram it with unrealistic & unattainable, that is soooo 90's. Sorry, her letter to the editor is not done))). The Kyoto framework does not optimize Canada's position to develop new technology (((again, bullshit on that! Rona, why not read the accord if you are heading the thing! Just what exactly do you call Joint Implementation and the Clean Development Mechanism? These not only help offset the emissions we're still not reducing at all, but directly benefit Canadian companies. The ones who are developing new technologies for the benefit of mankind, not just 1st worlders. ))) or take other effective measures to reduce Canada's greenhouse gas emissions((oh we can go beyond Kyoto too, if we want to, whats stopping that?)). Furthermore, while emissions trading systems may be part of an eventual greenhouse gas reduction strategy(((she hates these)), in our view the government of Canada should not engage in purchasing credits from foreign countries that do not result in verifiable reductions in Canada's emissions.((see, this is so weird. They just don't get it.. the right is supposed to love these and the left think they suck, not the other way around... but they just don't get it. Purchasing the credits means we don't reduce the emissions as much as we said we were going to, so there isn't a "verifiable reductions" in our emissions, cause we're basically buying the right to not be cleaner. It sucks, but it's a part of the mechanism. And BTW Rona, if you really hate the Carbon Credits schemes, why not make incentives so that the companies that would rather pay for credits than stop polluting actually clean up their act? If you love free markets (with benefits), then you ought to help the market move the way you want it to. It's not rocket science))) With my new position as President of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change((see this could get scary)), Canada has the opportunity to address these issues. I want Canadians to know that our first priority is our commitment to a made-in-Canada solution (((unlike that, er, foreign one))) that actively reduces greenhouse gas emissions by advancing domestic ((all for it)) and international policies (((please don't re-invent the wheel worse than it already is, Rona))) that reflect our mandate: to clean up Canada's air, water and soil. (((Pretty vague mandate)))
-Rona Ambrose, Minister of the Environment, Ottawa (((wow. so are we going to back out of Kyoto now too? Could this all be a dream?? Rona... Is there any way that you can actually make good one what you say??)))