Canada to follow U.S. lead at Copenhagen

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The Canadian government says it will be following Barack Obama's lead at next week's Copenhagen climate summit – and will propose to do no more, no less.

In a speech to a Montreal business audience Friday, Environment Minister Jim Prentice said Canada's policy for cutting greenhouse gases would be in lockstep with the United States.

He also brushed off critics of his government's climate-change positions, saying he will stick to his convictions despite international pressure at Copenhagen.

He cited two reasons why Canada would need to twin its policies with the United States: It would “suffer economic pain for no real environmental gain” if it took a more aggressive approach, he said. On the other hand, it would face punitive measures if it did less.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/climate-change/canada-to-follow-us-lead-at-copenhagen/article1389280/


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1. Wonder what finally got through his skull on that?

Considering we were facing expulsion from the Commonwealth a couple of days ago over his attitudes...

It's a pretty impressive bit of lag time for Harper to finally fall into "do exactly what the US is doing" mode, but I can't argue on this issue at least, considering the alternative. ;P