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Introduction
Harper has recently announced that Canada will join The Asia-Pacific Partnership. This firm created in 2006 is a cause nearly half of the worlds Greenhouse Gas emissions. The Partnership consists of Australia, China, India, Japan, Korea and the United States. for years Harper has clearly showed his dissaproval for the Kyoto Accord. I was interested on what aspects he didn't like so i looked at an article posted by CBC.ca.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/01/30/harper-kyoto.html
This shows that Harper had opposed the Kyoto accord when it was introduced in 2002. In the Liberals attempt to discredit Harpers goal, a letter written by Haper when he was the leader of the Canadian Alliance party, was posted on their site a few months ago. "He writes that it's based on 'tentative and contradictory scientific evidence" and it focuses on carbon dioxide, which is "essential to life.'" Harper is clearly ignoring the alarming rates at which Carbon Dioxide is being produced. It is true that there is no absolute certainty or proof that Carbon Dioxide is the reason for Global warming. However it is almost agreed among many scientists that there is a direct correlation between the two.
My stance is that Harper chose to join the Asia-Pacific Partnership so that he would not be obligated to join the kyoto accord as well. The United States and Australia, two of the Partnerships members, both openly stated that they wanted to have no part in the Kyoto's goal. Harper is also pushing to create a new "flexible" plan for cutting gas emmisions. He also shows his strong distaste for the kyoto accord. Although he is entitled to his opinion, it does not give him the right to ignore an "International Law" such as the Kyoto Accord. The deal that Canada has promised is not scheduled to be completed until 1212. This means that Canada must continue to follow the Kyoto's rules and guidelines until then.
There is no better man to ask about the environment than David Suzuki so I added a clip of him doing an interview discussing Harper and the Canadian's government involvment in the environment.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=U-zxxQQQlVA
If the clip work go to this link