Look at the thing. Why do you suppose the main instigators of Kyoto -- the United Kingdom, the European Union and the United Nations -- happened to pick 1990 as the base year for reducing GHG emissions?Interesting, isn't it? No wonder the Liberals didn't do much to actually implement Kyoto while they were in power. Now, while in the opposition, they're trying to get the Conservatives into this mess. So far it's win-win for the Liberals: either the government repudiates Kyoto and gets blasted for neglecting the environment or it follows through with Kyoto - and takes the blame for the lagging economy.
It wasn't written in stone. Kyoto wasn't even agreed to until 1997 and didn't come into effect until 2005. The drafters could have picked any year as the base year.
They retroactively chose 1990 because that was just before the Soviet Union imploded, meaning the European Union was able to take advantage of the dramatic drop-off in GHG emissions of the former Soviet satellites which later became part of Europe, countries which dramatically cut their GHG emissions not by doing anything, but by suffering a recession.
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That was to damage the U.S. economy by putting it at a competitive disadvantage had the Americans been stupid enough to ratify Kyoto. But even with Al Gore as their vice-president, they weren't.
We were. We ratified it because a reckless Jean Chretien was looking for an environmental legacy.
The only way for the Conservative government to break out of this trap is to seize the initiative. After all, the Conservatives are the governing party, aren't they? So instead of merely dragging their feet on dubious "climate change" initiatives brought forward by the opposition, the Conservatives must provide their own plan. They must propose real measures to combat air pollution as an alternative to the Kyoto scam. They must be far more proactive promoting a Conservative plan, than they were when Rona Ambrose was the Environment Minister.
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