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Originally Posted by Azure
Kyoto is a stupid agreement that nobody was going to obey anyways.
There was no point in staying part of it. Harper pulled out because of that, and because it is ridiculous that a lot of European countries are targeting our oil sands as a source of bad emissions, while ignoring what countries like India and China do.
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Kyoto was never an environmental treaty. It was always completely and exclusively about wealth redistribution. Fully developed industrial nations were expected to pay while nations like China and India - the worlds largest polluters, but still growing economies - were exempt. Funnel money from the first world to the second to the third. Kyoto was a joke, and Chretien was a moron to sign on. Harper's fault was not pulling out of that idiotic accord, but in not having a decent Canadian environmental policy to replace it.
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Originally Posted by Azure
Like what exactly? If anything all the Federal Government should be doing is developing a guideline that each individual states should follow, and then allow them to do so however they want.
Especially with something like healthcare. I shudder to think of how bad our healthcare system would be if the Federal Government ran it, instead of each individual province having their own system that adheres to the Canada Health Act.
There are things the Federal Government should look after, and things the Provincial Government should look after. I think Canada has done a very good job in that line. Much better than the US.
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You'll never get anything like that to happen without changing the US Constitution, and there is no chance the states ever agree.