More at BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16151310
UPI says:
The cost of meeting Canada’s obligations under Kyoto would be $13.6 billion, Kent said.
“That’s $1,600 from every Canadian family — that’s the Kyoto cost to Canadians, that was the legacy of an incompetent liberal government,” the Conservative minister said.
At the Toronto Sun:
Over the weekend, the 195 members of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change finished a record-breaking, marathon session two days behind schedule in Durban, and charted a course toward a new regime to be finalized by 2015 in an effort to stave off dangerous human interference with the atmosphere.
The framework agreement salvaged the Kyoto Protocol, but it became clear that it would not include Canada’s participation.
Before he returned to Canada, Kent told reporters that the government was justified in its action.
“We want to avoid another Kyoto-like pact at all costs,” said Kent at the summit in South Africa. “Kyoto was not effective and was not good for Canada. The previous government should not have ratified it.”
An island of sanity in the great white north. 🙂
As a some time critic of Canadian Conservative national politics, I can only applaud the courage,and Honesty of Peter Kent,and our government, to withdraw from this Political patchwork of unelected,self serving scientifically uninformed, global party goers. They, looking for further handouts,from ALL of us, to enrich themselves,is nothing short of despicable. The IPCC,and U.N. does,and will continue to mis-allocate resources to the corrupt, from those really in need,our worlds’ Poor.
Thanks for the post Anthony. Its in all the newspapers here and of course when something like this happens all the AGW believers come out in force condemning Canada. We’re having a lovely day up here and in case folks here worry we are abandoning the most vulnerable fear not.
The Canadian Government is on track to double international assistance, with a planned budget of 5 billion dollars annually by 2010-2011.
Furthermore, we have now met our G8 commitment of doubling aid to Africa-bringing the total to $2.1 billion for this year.
Yay !!!
It’s a great day to be a Canadian!
YES!
This is what we voted the Conservatives in for.
Not junk science & UN to tax our economies into the red.
(Gather they didn’t believe the memo from last week saying we would be out?)
A lot of Australians are applying for Canadian visas just about now…
Whatever Canada’s reasons are for pulling out of Koyoto, it wont make one sod of difference to the world climate irrespective of what “the science” says.
Then the remaining Kyoto-freaks are:
EU (UK and Germany only?), Norway, Oz, and NZ. Am I right?
Good for Peter Kent … I’m proud to be Canadian. Now, if we had politicians like him in the province of Ontario, this kind of nonsense wouldn’t happen:
http://windconcernsontario.wordpress.com/2011/12/12/site-will-no-longer-be-updated/
Go, Canada!
Hurray! Now if only Australia would follow suit.
Never, while this lunatic government remains in power.
My first visit to Canada in 1976, Britain had a terrible drought that year – must have been Global Warming, no climate chan………. Loved Canada ever since. Award yourselves a public holiday, you could call it “No to Kyoto Day”, yeah that’ll work.
It makes me proud 🙂
Good for Canada. Let’s hope that the rest of the Kyoto nations soon follow suet.
Know this is real climate justice.
Go Canada Go
Land of the free…..clearly.
Oh, Canada!
At least some North Americans have come to their senses.
The entire nation of Canada has roughly the population of the US state of California (last time I looked, might have changed). The amount of CO2 mitigation provided by the Kyoto protocol would be completely negligible on a global atmospheric scale. It would be completely impossible to even notice the decline. That completely negligible change in atmospheric CO2 would cost Canada $13.6 billion. Canada is making the right decision. They are going to stop paying the UN rent for their atmosphere.
I should like to see more follow their example.
Meanwhile, our government keeps piling it on.
at last a Government who puts the interests of its citizens first rather than wanting to strut upon the UN ineffectual stage
Fan-bloody-tastic.
Now admittedly it’s dangerous to suggest things like this based on the relative health and success of one government, but pretty much since Harper got a majority government I’ve been thinking the right strategy for the US might be an ‘elephant that roared’ – invade Canada, then capitulate.
Kyoto is just a thing of the past. Children just aren’t going to know what Kyoto is. It was a very rare and unexciting event.
Excellent. The first big brick to tumble out of the wall.