Canada Formally Withdraws From Kyoto Protocol

[Obama 2012 1,714]

BRAVO!

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16151310

Canada will formally withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, the minister of the environment has said.

Peter Kent said the protocol "does not represent a way forward for Canada" and would have forced it to take "radical and irresponsible choices".

The move, which is legal and was expected, makes it the first nation to pull out of the global treaty.

The protocol, initially adopted in Kyoto, Japan, in 1997, is aimed at fighting global warming.

"Kyoto, for Canada, is in the past, and as such we are invoking our legal right to withdraw from Kyoto," Mr Kent said in Toronto.

He said he would be formally advising the United Nations of his country's intention to withdraw.

He said the cost of meeting Canada's obligations under Kyoto would cost $13.6bn (10.3bn euros; £8.7bn): "That's $1,600 from every Canadian family - that's the Kyoto cost to Canadians, that was the legacy of an incompetent liberal government".

Canada declared four years ago that it did not intend to meet its existing Kyoto Protocol commitments and its annual emissions have risen by about once third since 1990.

[Dakine10 5,452]

that was the legacy of an incompetent liberal government".

Yep, the liberals have to take the blame for this one. The conservatives had already screwed up so bad that the party did not even officially exist at that time.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Global warming is fixed!

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

And you know what? If we are going to build a border fence, it should be on the border with Caa nada and it should be TALL one. That's where all that effin' COLD AIR is coming from! Horrble draft!

[Ban Hammer 13,343]

And you know what? If we are going to build a border fence, it should be on the border with Caa nada and it should be TALL one. That's where all that effin' COLD AIR is coming from! Horrble draft!

if it stops them darn canadian geese, i'm all for it!

[Misha & Ira 113]

[luckytxn 2,264]

Bravo Canada. At least y'all have brains. Now if the U.S. would get smart we can get this country moving forward again.

[Boiler 45,522]

At least the Canadians are being honest, not a bunch of lying hypocrites like the rest of them.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Bravo Canada. At least y'all have brains. Now if the U.S. would get smart we can get this country moving forward again.

The US never signed Kyoto. This means Canadians are still learning...but at least they are learning