Global warming.
It seems to be a hot topic with politicians lately.
It certainly sparked some controversy at last week’s Green Living Show after former U.S. Vice-President Al Gore blasted Ottawa’s greenhouse action plan calling it a “complete and total fraud” and “misleading” to Canadians in his message he delivered to a sold-out crowd.
The Tories’ environmental plan is under attack for not setting any hard limits for emissions as required under the Kyoto protocol.
However, Harper’s government has warned that meeting Kyoto targets, as Canada previously agreed it would do, would plunge the country into a recession.
McGuinty agreed that cutting pollution could drive up energy costs and have other economic repercussions, at least in the near term, but said cleaning up the air is imperative.
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