Kyoto Accord Martin/Liberals Way Behind

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Martin is a blowhard and is lying again. Instead of cleaning up the Liberal record on greenhouse gas and the Kyoto Scam he has lead us all down the garden path again. By his windbagging about Bush and the US he lead people away from his own and Canada's record on Green house gas emmissions. Appalling Liberals lies and deceit as usual. In order for him to meet the committments he has forced on Canadian taxpayers, he would have to shut down all air flights, private transport and home heating in Canada as well as all industry. Only a moron would believe or vote for this man.-----Calgary Sun- Yesterday Prime Minister Paul Martin gave an impassioned speech at the conference, arriving as he did, on one of the least fuel-efficient planes in service -- a Boeing 727.

In his speech, Martin lambasted the U.S. and other countries that refused to sign on to the Kyoto Protocol to reduce CO2 emissions, which are not a pollutant.

"There are nations that resist, voices that attempt to diminish the urgency or dismiss the science," said Martin.

Meanwhile, since signing Kyoto, Canadian greenhouse gas emissions have shot up 24% over 1990 levels -- which is 30% above our Kyoto target. Canada is ranked 35th out of 40 countries in a recent UN report of Kyoto signatories.

The big bad Americans have only increased greenhouse gas emissions by 13% from 1990 levels.

Basically, Canada's position on global warming has been nothing more than hot air.

Have a nice walk home, delegates!

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Paul subscribes to Dr, Goebels ideas. Tell a big enough lie, tell it often, and the dupes will believe it.--That means we have to reduce our emissions to 560 megatonnes.

The feds claim that their plan could reduce emissions by 270 megatonnes annually by 2012.

Martin claimed last Wednesday that "we're going to hit our Kyoto targets."

But consider these numbers from Environment Canada.

In 2002, Canada's entire manufacturing sector spewed out 62.9 megatonnes.

Then comes the transportation sector, which includes all those planes, trains and automobiles, pipelines and Paul Martin's tax-exempt Canada Steamship Lines freighters.

Ground, park and dock them all and we would remove 190 mt of GHGs.

Combine those two sectors -- manufacturing and transportation -- and that adds up to 252.9 megatonnes, leaving us short by 17.1 megatonnes.

The only way Canada can meet its Kyoto target is by either shutting down our economy or buying carbon credits from places like Russia, that only met its targets because they weren't very ambitious to begin with.

Then, with the fall of the iron curtain and the dismantling of the former Soviet Union, all of those highly polluting and inefficient factories and plants were shut down.

In other words, the corrupt Liberal government plans to send billions of your hard-earned money to a government even more corrupt than our own.

With this plan Canada's commitment to Kyoto is heads I lose, tails I lose.

It will, of course, be spun the other way around.

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