ANOTHER REASON WHY CONSERVATIVES SUCK!!!!

Environment Minister Rona Ambrose must resign her position as chair at Conference of the Parties (COP) and recall our delegates from Bonn due to her hidden efforts to sabotage the Kyoto Protocol, said Liberal Environment Critic Scott Brison.

"Not only should Canada's delegation be recalled, Ms. Ambrose must resign her position as chair at Conference of the Parties (COP) because of her covert attempts to sabotage the development of a binding international consensus on global warming," said Mr. Brison.
"This is not only outrageous, it is dangerously duplicitous. Ms. Ambrose's actions risk irreparably damaging Canada's reputation at the United Nations and will compromise any progress at COP," he added.

Recent news reports have revealed that Ms. Ambrose has not only betrayed the responsibilities entrusted to her by Canadians and the international community, but she may have also breeched International Convention by instructing Canada's delegation in Bonn to contravene aspects of the Kyoto Protocol which are now international law.

In a private directive to Canadian negotiators obtained by the Globe and Mail, Ms. Ambrose instructs her delegation that Canada no longer "support[s] a continuation of the status quo beyond 2012" and wants a new agreement that "must include the USA and all major developing country emitters and allow for different types of commitments based on national circumstances." In effect, Ms. Ambrose now wants Canada to gut Kyoto's legally-binding targets in favour of the current U.S. Administration's position of voluntary, non-binding targets.

The Harper government has made no secret of its desire to scrap Canada’s commitments to the Kyoto Protocol. Early last week, the Prime Minister decided to ignore the results of a vote calling on the government to respect Kyoto commitments. All opposition parties, recognizing the fight against climate change was not only necessary but crucial, passed the motion by a vote of 169-125. But when asked if his government would respect Parliament’s decision, Prime Minister Stephen Harper dismissed the motion entirely because it was not “an action plan.”

The Prime Minister instead announced that his government plans to turn its back on its international obligations under Kyoto by signing on to the Asia Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate (AP6) - a plan with no fixed emission targets or mandatory commitments. This confirms Mr. Harper's preference to follow a weak U.S.-led plan to ship clean technology overseas instead of reducing pollution and greenhouse gas emissions in Canada.
Ms. Ambrose has also come under fire from environmentalists who have called on her to resign as chair of the UN negotiations.

“In the interest of Canadians and the international community, the Harper government must immediately resign from the Presidency of the Kyoto process,” said Steven Guilbeault of Greenpeace Canada. “This government is failing to protect Canadians from the real and urgent impacts of climate change: heat waves in our cities; drought in our prairies; sea level rise on our coasts and cultural genocide of our Arctic peoples. They have no right and no credibility to be chairing a process they want to destroy.”

Ms. Ambrose’s actions have betrayed 15 years of leadership by successive Canadian governments to develop a legally-binding international consensus on global warming. With six years remaining to meet our objectives under Kyoto, it is simply unconscionable for the Conservatives to simply throw their hands in the air and say it can’t be done.
Canada has an obligation to future generations and to all citizens of this planet to make climate change a priority. The fight against global warming is too important to be subject to the partisan politics of a minority government desperate to score political points with its southern neighbours.