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chemgear · 12-03-2015, 10:23 AM

That's a lot of flights to Paris.

http://news.nationalpost.com/full-co...numbers-france

The massive Canadian contingent at the UN climate-change conference in Paris was originally estimated at 350 people, but it appears the trans-Atlantic road trip has expanded.

The “provisional list of participants” just released by the UN has an amazing 383 names from Canada, ranking us among the largest entourages in the entire confab.

“Canada is back, my good friends,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told the conference, and he wasn’t just blowing greenhouse gases.

Canada has sent more people to Paris than Australia (46), the U.K. (96), the U.S. (148), Russia (313) and almost as many as host-country France (396).

Not a bad turnout for a country that emits just 1.6 per cent of the planet’s greenhouse gases, eh?

Did we really need to send the deputy environment minister for the Northwest Territories? Th eclimate-change youth ambassador for the Yukon? The leader of the New Brunswick Green Party? The interim leader of the Bloc Quebecois and his press secretary? The “security co-ordinator” for Hydro-Quebec?

Many of these fine folks are so marginal to the climate-change file that calling them “bit players” would be a stretch

12-03-2015, 10:23 AM	#27
chemgear Franchise Player Join Date: Feb 2010 Exp:	That's a lot of flights to Paris. http://news.nationalpost.com/full-co...numbers-france The massive Canadian contingent at the UN climate-change conference in Paris was originally estimated at 350 people, but it appears the trans-Atlantic road trip has expanded. The “provisional list of participants” just released by the UN has an amazing 383 names from Canada, ranking us among the largest entourages in the entire confab. “Canada is back, my good friends,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told the conference, and he wasn’t just blowing greenhouse gases. Canada has sent more people to Paris than Australia (46), the U.K. (96), the U.S. (148), Russia (313) and almost as many as host-country France (396). Not a bad turnout for a country that emits just 1.6 per cent of the planet’s greenhouse gases, eh? Did we really need to send the deputy environment minister for the Northwest Territories? Th eclimate-change youth ambassador for the Yukon? The leader of the New Brunswick Green Party? The interim leader of the Bloc Quebecois and his press secretary? The “security co-ordinator” for Hydro-Quebec? Many of these fine folks are so marginal to the climate-change file that calling them “bit players” would be a stretch