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.”
It just goes to show not all politicians are unscrupulous and/or taken in by junk science.
Unfortunately, the UK’s Chris Huhne is not one of these. As for the EU, an organisation run by career bureaucrats and politicians, who have had little exposure to the real world, it is not surprising they are a hopeless cause, spewing out a never ending list of industry destroying directives, especially on ‘climate change’.
Canada is an island of sanity in a sea of stupidity and self-interest and is to be congratulated.
Go to this website and help with some voting. CBC is Canada’s ABC, BBC, CNN.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/12/12/pol-kent-kyoto-pullout.html?cmp=rss
“That’s $1,600 from every Canadian family!!!!
What? Think yourselves very lucky. In Scotland they are planning to spend £2000 ($3000) not per family, but per person.
G. Karst says: December 12, 2011 at 8:52 pm
Of course! And speaking of Manitoba’s most famous bear … today in Vancouver, one of Winnie’s distantly descendant cousins had (evidently inadvertently) hitched a ride in a waste removal truck from somewhere on the North Shore to the heart of downtown:
Bear captured in downtown Vancouver
This story does have a happy ending; but I rather suspect that any day now Suzuki (or WWF, or CBC’s Bob McDonald) will be announcing that the bear’s coat would have been a lot lighter if it weren’t for all our dreaded CO2 emissions 😉
But it has been a grand day to be a Canadian, eh?!
Aussie Luke Warm says:
December 12, 2011 at 6:22 pm
we’re soooooooooo jealous of you Canada. Can we borrow your government for awhile?
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… and we’re (NZ) in line to borrow it next!
The cracks are starting to appear … how long before the wall falls completely?
Meditate on Patchy cho cho waking up to his next life as a neutered steer, in a feed lot In Amarillo Texas surrounded by hundreds of wind generators, Karma can be a bitch.
“That’s $1,600 from every Canadian family — that’s the Kyoto cost to Canadians, that was the legacy of an incompetent liberal government”
Here in Australia we are wearing this as the legacy of an incompetent Labor government.
It has just been announced that the last UK aluminium smelter is to close because of unstainable energy cost increases. These include costs arising from the UK Climate Change Act (the most expensive piece of UK legislation ever passed), subsidies to renewable energy producers and EU and UK carbon taxes.
Net results – loss of jobs, increase in trade imbalance as all aluminium will now be imported, loss of tax receipts. Although the UK carbon footprint will be reduced, the carbon dioxide will simply be produced elsewhere..
Well done Canada for avoiding this economic madness.
PS Can you give the UK a special deal on aluminium.
Good on you Canada…..and a massive stick that up your jumper to the imbeciles running Australia into the ground.
Now we need to get rid of the UN pestulence of Agenda21
Another Gareth asks who had the authority to fine a sovereign nation? Well the UN is hoping that eventually they will be able to. But now we can tell them to go hang.
JimOfCP / From what you said shows a unique brand of humour.
I can only presume your mother american your father canadian
in terms of genetic pooling your having the best of both nation’s.
Australia wake up!
Dear Canadians,
I am happy that at last you have seen sense and your Conservative government has abandoned the Kyoto Protocol. Meanwhile, back here in the old country, we also have a supposedly Conservative government, but there is little chance of any similar action for us (and considering how the economy is going, we are more in need than you!). Would you mind sending back some of those Conservative voters we have been sending West over the centuries so we can elect a PM with some “balls” again? We only need to borrow them for 5 years really… Pleaaase.
Yours affectionate,
FD
Ben U 6:44 and G. Karst 8:52
Winnie the Pooh (with an ‘h’), despite being named after Winnipeg, is British, not Canadian. The Littlest Hobo was absolutely brilliant – my kids were small at the time and they loved it. Yes, the Littlest Hobo is a worthy emblem of the great Canadian nation. And thanks, Canada, for taking the lead in the direction of common sense. There are some slight signs that our leaders in Britain are beginning to wake up, but it’s very early days.
Congratulations Canada! As a hapless Ozzie I can only wish I too had a government that put its people before posturing on the world stage.
Election not for two more years – I hope there is something left of the economy before we boot these morons out.
Barry Brill says:
December 12, 2011 at 4:29 pm
Minister Combet has declared that Australia will not be entering into any commitments for the second Kyoto period.
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the BIG test is for them to GIVE BACK the rights to farm the land the idiots now in power STOLE from the owners ie Peter Spencer and many others.
the way Aus is going Canadas looking very attractive.
hmm?
I expected to hear howls from Suzuki and his ilk…whats up? they got caught in a snowdrift maybe:-)
Richard Holle says:
December 13, 2011 at 1:17 am
Meditate on Patchy cho cho waking up to his next life as a neutered steer, in a feed lot In Amarillo Texas surrounded by hundreds of wind generators, Karma can be a bitch.
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Richard youve quite cheered me up:-) nice thought indeed.
This signals Canada is ready to do business. Should we prosper form this, I would hope that we could further lead by investing in pure scientific research and increasing foreign aid.
Do I sense a politician actually delivering on his pre-election promises?
Isn’t that approach awfully obsolete in all civilized countries by now?
Wow, Canada’s popular 🙂 May I remind you that it’s VERY COLD in Canada so think twice about flooding us in unseaworthy boats 😉
One thing that really stuck out for me in the whole Durban Festa was some girl standing up and claiming to be talking on behalf of half the world’s population.
pl says:
December 12, 2011 at 7:33 pm
Wonderful news to this Canadian.Let us hope that this step back from the abyss will be but the first of many.Eliminating all solar/wind subsidies would be a nice second step,followed by a reversal of the light bulb ban.I’d also like a pony and a back rub.
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Throw in a pedicure and a cold beer ……………….. I’m with you.
Friends:
I write to congratulate Canadians on their being the first to openly admit the obvious; i.e. the AGW-scare is in its death throes.
Before the Copenhagen COP I predicted (on WUWT and in several other places) that it would be the ‘beginning of the end’ for the AGW-scare. The scaremongers knew it too, and they were then making laughably desperate proclamations such as, “We have ten days left to save the world”. But their desperation was to no avail: the Copenhagen COP failed to reach an agreement.
At that point the negotiators could see the writing on the wall; “mene mene tekel u-Pharsin”.
Those with any sense started to back away from the AGW-scare. The Cancun COP was a farce and no senior politician from any country attended. The recent Durban COP collapsed the issue to complete farce by debating insane proposals that could never be adopted because they would be political suicide for any politicians who signed-up to them.
But politicians who have been supporting the scare cannot admit they were wrong so they allow bureaucrats to continue actions for COPs while knowing they are allowing the AGW-scare to slowly fade away into distant memory.
Canada has obtained a new generation of politicians who are not tied to past adherence to the AGW-scare. Thus, Canada has managed to openly admit the obvious.
I congratulate Canadians on being the first to break the political log-jam of the AGW-scare. And I remind them that AGW is merely the latest in a series of such false scares so they need to beware whatever will be the next one.
Richard
Examples please.
BLADE / There no end to the nations plundered as bombed by the USA ..where Canada has supported in word as military / in appalling acts of mass murder as theft of nations resources.
BAHRAIN SYRIA IRAN RUSSIA CHINA IRAN VIETNAM ALL AFRICAN AS ASIAN NATIONS
JAPAN / SOUTH AMERICAN NATIONS A LIST OF EURO NATIONS ETC SUCH A LIST BUT
GOES ON AND ON AND ON // (PALESTINE) // THE PLIGHT OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE.