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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
...I hope Canada is a leader, whether it's environmental, humanitarian or other policies that would make it and/or the world a better place. ...
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This is the type of Gore's and Suzuki's rhetoric that has nothing behind it. You can hope all you want, but realistically speaking, Canada is a huge but sparsely-populated country with a negligible (invisible) impact on the world. We have roughly the population of metro-Tokyo. Canada's expense to support its vast area economically and socially between the three oceans and a few bigger cities is already enormous and inefficient as it is. Adding unproven and un-affordable hurdles to stroke some politicians' ego and ambitions to say "look at us!" is nothing but irresponsible showmanship.
Smart countries and smart politicians know its place in the world pecking order and govern themselves accordingly, when it comes to making sacrifices affecting its own people. Canada has been sacrificing its people's economic interests in favour of that illusion of world leadership far too long.