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~Canadian Senate says fuck you to the UN and kills Bill C-311 the Climate Change Accountability Act~
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Back to the drawing board it appears...
[link to www.thespec.com]
OTTAWA Opposition MPs and environmental activists say Canada is going into global-warming talks empty-handed after a majority of Conservative senators voted down a climate-change bill.
A snap vote in the Senate on Tuesday caught Liberals in the upper house off guard, and not enough Grits showed up to save the bill from losing by a narrow margin of 43-42.
NDP Leader Jack Layton, whose party introduced the bill, called it “outrageous” an unelected Senate can kill what he says is important legislation..."
[link to www.walrusmagazine.com]
"Bill C-311, the “Climate Change Accountability Act,” was a small but very significant piece of legislation that had been crawling its way through our federal lawmaking apparatus since 2006. It would have enforced on Canada obligations set by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: a return to 25 percent below 1990 carbon emissions levels by 2025, and 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050. The bill’s success would have signalled a dramatic shift in Canadian policy toward climate change — that is, since we bailed on meeting the standards set by the Kyoto Protocol, which we signed on to — and would have given us something to show the world at the next major climate conference, beginning later this month in Cancun. Liberal, Bloc, and NDP MPs passed the law in the House of Commons in April, sending it on to the Senate. Unfortunately, this past Tuesday, in an almost unheard-of political move, Conservative senators abruptly shot it down — before anything like the normal Senate process of debate and evaluation had taken place, with senators who would otherwise have supported the bill not present..."
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