“I think the preponderance of the evidence on [climate change] is clear, that it’s a real long-term challenge, but what I’ve said is it can’t be fixed overnight. This country is headed to be 50 per cent above its Kyoto target in 2012,” Stephen Harper said on CTV’s Question Period. “We can’t tell the Canadian population to heat its homes one-third less of the time. So we’ve got a major challenge and we’re going to get on with it.” stephen harper, quoted in globe and mail
Needless to say Smilin’ Jack Layton is shocked at the Prime Minister’s….what, candor? sense of the real world?
Harper looks to be setting up the one, two punch: one, the Liberals had six years, six billion dollars and all we have is Dion’s dog, Kyoto; two, if you want an instant solution it is going to cause real pain – like shutting down your furnace for an extra couple of month a year.
The first part is smart politics, the second is the basis for a Conservative energy and emissions strategy. While the climate alarmists are warning of dire consequences in fifty or a hundred years hitting Canada’s Kyoto commitments would create dire consequences right now. Harper and Baird are going to bang away at that theme and, with luck, begin to put Canadians in the real picture. The pious hopes of the NDP, Grits and Greens would cause real pain if they were to be implemented absent significant and intelligent technological and economic progress on emissions.
Forcing the alamists to fess up on the real costs is going to be tough; but it is by far the best strategy the Tories have got politically. It is also the best way of convincing Canadians to back realistic rather than alarmist approaches to greenhouse gas emissions.
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