http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNew...4?hub=Politics
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OTTAWA -- The Harper Conservatives have stunned the House of Commons by supporting a Bloc Quebecois motion that calls for absolute limits on greenhouse gas emissions.
It's an apparent contradiction of Conservative policies.
The motion was passed unanimously, a rare occurrence in the Commons.
The Bloc motion calls for the government to urgently set absolute targets for cutting greenhouse emissions in order to achieve the objectives of the Kyoto Accord.
Incredulous opposition MP's initially attributed the government's support for the Bloc motion to a translation error, which translated "absolute'' targets as "fixed'' targets.
But after the error was corrected, the government voted in favour.
The Tories have explicitly rejected absolute limits on emissions in favour of "intensity targets,'' which would allow emissions to rise along with economic growth.
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