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[Minstrel Boy]

Harper rejects Kyoto, native deal

Jan 12

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The Conservative leader said he wouldn't try to live up to Canada's commitments under the Kyoto climate-change accord or under a recent $5-billion federal-provincial deal with natives. Harper said he'd turn his back on Kyoto, because its targets can't be met, and he'd set Canadian-made targets instead for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions.

He also said he would renege on the native deal and introduce a better aboriginal policy.

The Liberals, who have been painting Harper as a pro-American, right-wing extremist, jumped on his statements.

Environment Minister Stephane Dion said abandoning Kyoto would be a "tragedy" that would undermine the global effort to curb climate change.

"We will send a signal to the forces of progress that Canada is not with them anymore, we are with the resistance," he said.


http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Politics/CanadaVotes/2006/01/12/1391321-cp.html