Indications are that it may well be being used as a wedge issue to force UN control over what nations do. Headline: "Canada faces U.N. grilling over Kyoto abandonment". The story is about the fact that Canada can not meet the targets that the former, Liberal party, government agreed to. And this is very important – the article says the (now) opposition party wants binding targets put in place.
The minority Conservative government, which says Canada cannot meet emissions cuts mandated by Kyoto, last month proposed clean air legislation that ignored the protocol and promised to impose binding cuts only by 2020-2025.
Ambrose, the focus of attacks from the media, opposition parties and green groups, flew to Nairobi on Sunday for U.N. climate change talks on finding a successor to Kyoto, the first stage of which ends in 2012. Signatories to the protocol are gathered in the Kenyan capital for a two-week conference.
Ambrose is the outgoing president of the talks but rather than attend the opening last week she sent a video of remarks instead, to the irritation of some delegates.
Opposition politicians, saying the planned clean air law would damage Canada's international reputation, demanded Prime Minister Stephen Harper stick to the first stage of Kyoto and also agree to binding long-term targets.
"What we are asking is that (he) change a course which is a disaster for our environment, a disaster for our foreign policy and a gross abandonment of our responsibility for the world," said Liberal leader Bill Graham.
Canada's three opposition parties have a majority of seats in Parliament and say they will block the clear air bill. All three are sending legislators to Nairobi and vow to openly criticize Ambrose.
HYPOCRISY ACCUSATIONS
The Conservatives, who won power in January, paint the Liberals as hypocrites who did nothing about Kyoto after winning an election in 1993.
"Now (they) have the gall to actually suggest they would go to Nairobi and commit us to even more targets while we are still waiting to see their plan after 13 years," Harper said.
While the US is embroiled in internal politics, the far left in the world are proceeding to push their agendas. That that agenda wants the West to shut down its industry is pretty obvious. People should be rightfully suspicious about the motivations behind this. One rather suspects that the environment is a handy excuse.
Another good reason to quit the UN.
And be grateful we never ratified this new-age communist idiocy.