Dear Editor:
Re: The Maple Leaf and Climate Change, North Shore News, Feb. 25.
Federal Liberal candidate Jonathan Wilkinson, in his ad, disses the Conservative government for withdrawing from the Kyoto Accord and failing to cut greenhouse gas emissions as per our Kyoto commitments.
This version of history is hysterical. When the federal Liberals signed and later ratified the 1997 Kyoto Accord, they knew or should have known Canada could not meet our targets and the Liberals did little or nothing to meet the targets.
The two largest emitters in the world — the USA and China — refused to accept any limits. India was also off the list. The USA signed but never ratified the accord; the Japanese and Australians dodged their targets. Hence, Kyoto was dead from the get-go in terms of any real reduction in world emissions.
Canada’s Kyoto withdrawal was simple financial common sense and our end to the hypocrisy in the Kyoto green flag-waving exercise.
As Stephen Harper has pointed out, no country was or is willing to take serious measures that would really impact their economy.
I think Mr. Wilkinson might want to review his history.
John Hunter
North Vancouver
