Conservatives get 'Gored'; Al Gore says Tories misrepresented him

[Spazito]

OTTAWA (CP) - Former U.S. vice-president Al Gore is taking the Conservative government to task for suggesting he endorsed its performance on climate change.

The environmentalist, filmmaker, and onetime presidential candidate issued a statement from his Tennessee office Monday to distance himself from the Tory claim. "I understand that last week Canada's minister of the environment, John Baird, mischaracterized comments I made last summer as praise for the Harper government's actions on global warming," Gore wrote.

"The comments I made were designed to encourage the Harper government not to abandon Canada's tradition of fighting above its weight class on the world stage as part of the Kyoto process.

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Despite Gore's urging, the Conservative government has abandoned Canada's greenhouse-gas reduction commitments under the Kyoto Protocol.

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http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=5206c50f-285d-4215-8010-b6b99648354a&k=17342


(Global warming is now topping the polls re most important issues for Canadians and it is great that Gore is calling our faux con government on their lying! We will probably be into an election campaign late March or early April and the current government are trying to fool Canadians that they care about the environment, doesn't seem to be working, lol.)

[Lautremont]

1. I hope it embarasses the shit out of Harps,

but if you have no shame then I guess you don't ever feel embarassed.

[Cha]

2. It figures..it must be a world wide

disease for "conservatives"(read fascists) to lie.

Al Gore(El Presidente)was at the Grammys last night lookin' real cool with Queen Latifa by his side. B-)

[Doremus]

8. I missed the Grammys, darn. Do you know if there's a link where I can watch it?

[Judi Lynn]

12. His increasing time in the spotlight is training him. He's more comfortable now,

and it's a treat to see him whenever he's anywhere on tv, for any reason. He is becoming seasoned.

He did look terrific, too. You're right.

[Lisa]

3. The Bushies should be taking lessons from Al ...

He would be totally justified in ripping into us for not pulling our weight on Kyoto, the treaty he helped negotiate (much as it pains me to admit it, we weren't exactly leading the way before, and it's gotten even worse with Harper's gang). But instead, he's diplomatic -- no blustering and bullying, like the present White House does on so many issues.

I recall that during 2000, every region of Canada, even Alberta, thought Gore would be a better US President than Bush.

[Harper_is_Bush]

4. Fuck I love this. Kicked and R'd. n/t

[goforit]

5. May the conservatives across the world fall hard.

[Kurovski]

6. K&R.(nt)

[samsingh]

7. the gall of effin tories to now use Al Gore's good name

continues to show me how much the tories and conservatives are hypocrites.

[tuvor]

9. It's too ludicrous to ever be true.

Just last October, Harper was saying that climate change was "an evolving science".

For him to have received praise from Al Gore for his environmental performance a scant four months later would be beyond belief.

Will Harper take Baird to task for this gross misrepresentation of comments Gore made last summer? Depends on how it will affect his attempt to finally score a majority government, because failure will make Harper a three-time loser.

[tuvor]

10. A lot of US media has picked up the AP story, says Google News.

http://news.google.com/news?ie=UTF-8&scoring=d&q=%22stephen+harper%22+gore&btnG=Search

[Admiral Loinpresser]

11. Draft Gore 2008.

If you would like to help draft him, please contact me at [e-mail]. We are adding people all the time. When we go viral, he will get ready. I'm hoping for October. We have lots of time to build something great.

[Doondoo]

13. K&R