The federal NDP's Climate Change Accountability Act passed its final vote in the House of Commons today.
Bill C-311 sets greenhouse gas emissions targets consistent with the Kyoto protocol and those of other developed countries and is more stringent than Prime Minister Stephen Harper's goals.
Harper has argued that going beyond the U.S. targets (a 17 per cent reduction below 2005 levels) would be bad for the Canadian economy. This bill would require the federal government to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 25 per cent below 1990 levels over the next decade, and 80 per cent below 1990 levels by 2050.
The Liberals, NDP and Bloc Québécois united to push forward the bill, which passed with a vote of 149 to 136. It will now move to the Senate for debate.
"It is a great day for Canada as we finally have a blueprint for greening our future," declared NDP leader Jack Layton in a press release. "We would not be here without the thousands of Canadians who called and wrote to their Members of Parliament, pushing them to finally adopt meaningful climate-change legislation."
Colleen Kimmett reports for The Tyee.
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Janie Jones
2 years ago
Global warming or global government tool?
Not too surprising Layton is on board with the climate change/global government fraud considering the serious allegations that emerged over his leadership.
Wonder who arranged this:
"Election.com has had other problems. In January 2003, during Canada's New Democratic Party leadership convention, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reported, "Earl Hurd of Election.com said he believes someone used a "denial of service" program to disrupt the voting – paralyzing the central computer by bombarding it with a stream of data”…service was restored, then… "Toronto city councilor Jack Layton's victory on the first ballot surprised many, who had expected a second or even third round of voting before a leader was chosen from the pack of six candidates."
For election security experts, a strong and growing suspicion is that computer glitches or disruptions are actually vote rigging. A surprise election result should raise a red flag."
Source: http://www.thelandesreport.com/SERVEaccenture.htm
THIS magazine also reported that Layton was well down in the running prior to the leadership convention that put him in charge of the NoDifferenceParty.
Frank
2 years ago
Janie Jones
Then THIS magazine was wrong because almost all Dippers knew going in that it was between Layton and Blaikie.