- What is the Parliamentary term for bottom-feeding Senator Marjorie Lebreton in her latest fiasco? Can't think of anything that doesn't rhyme with bum scucket...
- You know you're in trouble when Arnold Schwarzenager's environmental advisor nails your bag to the wall, as CP reports.
OTTAWA -- Arnold Schwarzenegger's environmental adviser suggests the Canadian government's climate-change plan should be terminated -- or at least significantly improved.
Terry Tamminen will accompany the California governor during a three-day trip that begins later this month to Toronto, Vancouver and Ottawa, where Schwarzenegger is expected to meet Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
He says the Conservative government is making the same mistake as the
Bush administration in the U.S. by failing to take urgent action.
"I don't think the plan itself is commensurate with the threat," Tamminen said in an
interview. "Our federal governments are, frankly, asleep at the switch."
His criticism of the plan follows rebukes from former U.S. vice-president Al Gore, Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki, and from the head of the international body that oversees the Kyoto treaty. "Both of our countries ... need to take this problem more seriously and we've got to develop more aggressive targets."
Tamminen said state and provincial governments have succeeded where national ones have failed, and applauded examples set by Manitoba and British Columbia.
B.C. plans to join several U.S. states under a carbon-trading system proposed by Schwarzenegger.3. Susan Riley laments the abuse of power by the Conservative front bench in today's Citizen.
4. PM Steve likes to talk a lot about accountability, but that is for everyone else. The Globe and Mail notes that he is evoking Parliameentary privilege rather than appearing in court to explain some shady backroom deals.
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