Canadian Opposition Sending Reps To Nairobi To "Hijack" Climate Talks - AFP

[hatrack]

Opposition leaders said Thursday they would highjack Ottawa's role at upcoming Kyoto Protocol talks, saying Prime Minister Stephen Harper's minority government had failed to represent Canadians' climate change fears.

Liberal leader Bill Graham and separatist Bloc Quebecois leader Gilles Duceppe said they would send representatives to Nairobi, Kenya, next week to urge delegates to set stricter greenhouse gas emission reduction targets in phase two of the pact.

The two opposition parties have no official standing at the talks. But Duceppe said: "Our spokespeople will give our position to other countries and reporters. We will not shut up and line up behind the government and pretend that all of Canada and Quebec agree with the minister's position." The unusual move, they said, is justified because Environment Minister Rona Ambrose was working "to weaken the goals (of Kyoto) and stall negotiations" on reducing carbon emissions that cause global warming.

"Instead of urging hold-out countries to work within Kyoto, she has promised anti-Kyoto positions and rhetoric on the world stage. She has become a climate change anti-leader," Graham told reporters. "It's dangerous to the future of the planet," he said. "Canadians want our government to be a leader, a world leader on this issue."

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http://www.terradaily.com/2006/061109180532.qar4ib7m.html

[applegrove]

1. Hopefully the conseratives in Canada will go down the same sink hole

as their friends in the USA. Basically the jig is up. People want policy not ****shit.

[Canuckistanian]

2. Rona Ambrose has been a disaster

She's usually a no-show to all the major international conferences and summits.