Never let the facts (Apolitical Staples)

This would be unbelievable except it comes from a politician - one named McGuinty at that.

...He acknowledged that a Liberal government would be "behind the eight ball" in meeting those commitments, which one expert estimated would mean a 20% cut in emissions by every individual Canadian, every building and every enterprise. "It's impossible for me to know right now. I don't know the fiscals or the data," he claimed.
But the numbers are less important to Mr. McGuinty than the philosophical underpinnings of Kyoto, which helps explain why he clings to it so stubbornly in the face of the facts.

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This is the Liberals environment critic who was appointed by the "green leader". If these guys are not on top of this file no one will be. But of course he does not care. Kyoto is an icon and one that the Liberals hope to use to get back to power. As John Ivison points out it all seems familiar.

...Mr. McGuinty's comment was reminiscent of a similar interview nearly four years ago with his brother, Dalton, then leader of the Opposition at Queen's Park, when I asked him whether Ontario could afford to close all its coal-fired power stations by 2007. "Can we afford not to?" he answered. Last fall, Mr. Mc- Guinty's Liberal government was forced to admit that Ontario's coal-fired power stations will be open until at least 2014.

Lovely.