Elizabeth May pays down her debt to Stephane Dion by selling out Kyoto
Elizabeth May, leader of the Green Party, listened to the Conservative Throne Speech. In it, the government made it clear that Kyoto was no longer a concern. The targets could not be reached, and there was no interest in even trying.
Her response to Mike Duffy during an interview last night? That's fine. We don't need to fight an election over this.
You could almost see the strings reaching up to the rafters where Liberal Party leader Stephane Dion was pulling on his Green puppet.
Watch Mike Duffy's interview last night with Elizabeth May (down the right side bar). In it, Elizabeth May makes the remarkable statement that as far as the Green Party is concerned, the Conservative position on global warming as outlined in the Throne Speech is not worth fighting an election over.
As you might recall, Kyoto was declared dead and buried. No way was Canada going to meet the targets, and more importantly, Canada was not even to bother trying. Instead, a new schedule has been developed and a new way of measuring success.
The Tories have been universally condemned by environmentalists over this approach:
Johanne Whitmore, a climate change policy analyst with the Pembina Institute, said Canada needs to return to its Kyoto obligations.
"We have next to no credibility on the international negotiation level,' she told CTV Newsnet. "We need to be supportive of a mandate that will launch negotiations for the second phase of Kyoto."
That was on September 23, only three weeks ago.
Now three weeks later the leader of the Green Party says it's fine. Drop Kyoto. Whatever.
Why would Elizabeth May, leader of the Green Party, do this?
She wouldn't.
But Elizabeth May, Liberal Party lapdog, might not have had a choice.
Ever since the Stephane Dion promised not to run a candidate in the Nova Scotia riding of Central Nova so that the Green Party candidate, Elizabeth May herself, would not suffer from vote splitting with the Liberals, the question has been what did the Liberals get in return.
Last night we learned what it was.
I'm willing to bet Elizabeth May was directed by Stephane Dion to provide the Liberals a strong green cover to allow the Throne Speech to stand. The Liberals are in no shape to fight an election. If Stephane Dion doesn't want to fight one, he needs to be able to allow the government's position on Kyoto to pass while minimizing the damage from accusations that he had sold out the environmental plank of the Liberal platform, the very issue that formed the core of his leadership run.
Now Stephane Dion can say that if the Green Party thinks the government's environmental plan is tolerable, then the Liberal Party can hold its collective nose and not force an election over this issue.
You have to give credit to Stephane Dion on this one -- this part of his plan worked.
Of course, when he agreed that the Liberals would not run in Central Nova, I'm thinking that he wasn't expecting payback in this sort of situation.
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LOL, makes you wonder if Green Party members are doing a slow burn right now, seeing their leader betray their most holy Kyoto and subject to Dion's every whim.
On a side note, where was Marie Pouline, for the Throne Speech? Vacationing in Bermuda. I guess the Liberal Party President couldn't be bothered with the fact that Government had a real chance of falling when her tanning time was in jeopardy.
Posted by: Lycan Stark at October 17, 2007 09:23 AM
I made exactly this post in the G&M comments. Glad you agree.
Posted by: john g at October 17, 2007 10:03 AM
The envirowhacks are upset. Boo hoo. It's about time Harper put a stake through Kyoto's heart.
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Johanne Whitmore, a climate change policy analyst with the Pembina Institute, said Canada needs to return to its Kyoto obligations.
"We have next to no credibility on the international negotiation level,' she told CTV Newsnet. end quote
What is it about these greenies and their fetish with world opinion toward Canada? Most thinking Canadians couldn't care less what the eurosocialists think. Ms Whitmore should get a real job.
Posted by: Larry at October 17, 2007 11:29 AM
I wonder if the Green Party is going to take a hit in the polls because of this. I would think that the Bloc and NDP are the only partys that can claim to be champions of Kyoto now. It will be interesting to see the results of a non-weekend poll after the throne speech. I wonder if Liz is going to have the same leadership problems that Dion is facing, perhaps she hitched her wagon to the wrong horse.
Posted by: Expert Tom at October 17, 2007 11:31 AM
AAAAAAGGHHHH.....the Green Party is only around to bleed votes off of the NDP. It must have been a great big, liquor-soaked laff-riot party at both the respective CON and LIE HQs' that night the Green party was officially created...
Posted by: Feldwebel Wolfenstool at October 17, 2007 11:51 AM
I think they're about to shift ground: the Kyoto political turf is no longer defensible and Stephane Dion isn't about to commit political suicide fighting for it. The environmental battle, including global warming, is about to open up on another front. Dion (and maybe May) is going to stop playing defense and start firing on Stephen Harper's proposals instead.
Posted by: GDW at October 17, 2007 12:22 PM
Every pro-Liberal environmental lobby interviewed on TV are supporting Kyoto, and one of them said that Kyoto Carbon Credits are needed as part of the reduction of GHGs, if not in Canada then in China, India, Africa.
Why do I suspect that each and every one of these "environmental green groups" are indirectly financed by Powercorp-CITIC who desperately need Canada's BILLION$$$ of Kyoto Carbon Credits to finance their planned high-sulphur coal-fired power plants in China ..??
Posted by: Observer at October 17, 2007 12:57 PM
Mo Strong must be totally PO'd with the LPC for not supporting his take over the world plan. His empire is taking another hit- looks good on him. Find another country to screw around with, Mo.
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