From Australia (!):Canada under pressure over Kyoto

[tuvor]

CANADA'S Opposition parties have voted to force the Government to implement the Kyoto Protocol and meet emissions reduction targets the Government believes are unattainable.

The minority Conservative Government, which plans to unveil new environmental regulations in the coming weeks in response to air pollution and global warming, has voted against the Bill, which must still pass several hurdles before it becomes law.

"We know that the Conservatives have abandoned the fight against climate change. They abandoned Kyoto. We want to force them to accept the Kyoto Protocol and respect what was promised to Canadians," said Pablo Rodriguez, a Liberal MP who signed the proposed legislation.

Canada agreed under the Kyoto Protocol to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 6 per cent below 1990 levels by 2012.

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,20528841-5005962,00.html

(Can't seem to find a Canadian news link. Thank you, cal04: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2545867)

[MrPrax]

1. You're not the only one

to notice this rather byzantine news distribution:

Kyoto Second Reading Beats Tories: CBC Buries Head in Tar Sands

C. L. Cook

PEJ News
October 4, 2006


In a 152-115 vote, Mr. Harper, who has run rough-shod over the Commons for his interminable but brief time as pm, suffered his first defeat yesterday, yet the CBC website has nary a peep on this significant humbling.

While Harper harangues the NDP their temerity to suggest the Afghanistan policies of both Harper's reconstituted Tories (aka "Canada's New Government"), and their predecessor Liberal government is a disastrous quagmire, and the super secretive Tories hold shadowy meetings with their American confreres to discuss the undoing of the confederation, State media organ, the Canadian Broadcasting Corpse sees it unfit to reveal to their paymasters, the Canadian people, the one ray of hope, a defeat for the overwhelmingly unpopular Harper and his crew.

God help us, the corporate media has more on this than the "public broadcaster." In fact, the Australian media has more on this than the CBC. And aren't we getting our money's worth?

For more on this brief break in the gloom besetting our nation since January, read on...

PEJ

But in all fairness, the CBC is reporting this about 'shadowy meetings':

FBI agents slip into Canada without approval: report

An internal FBI audit shows that U.S. agents carry out investigations in Canada, often without the knowledge or approval of the Canadian government. The most recent audit by the Federal Bureau of Investigation's inspector general, done in 2004, documents the growth of FBI operations in Canada since 2001.

It also says that about 30 per cent of FBI agents crossing the border to work in Canada failed to get "country clearance." In other words, they didn't get Canada's approval. The inspector general's report documents 135 unapproved FBI crossings and says there is no sign the crossings will stop.

CBC

:wow: