Tory Plan Links Air Quality With Health

The briefings did not mention the Kyoto protocol, the international agreement to tackle global warming by 2012. Instead, federal officials talked about 2025 and 2050 as target years for reducing Canada's emissions of carbon dioxide and the other greenhouse gases shown to be responsible for rising temperatures over the past half century. The confidential briefings also did not specifically mention Great Lakes water quality. A Canada-U.S. agreement to clean up the lakes is up for renegotiation over the next year. Dale Marshall, a climate change expert with the David Suzuki Foundation who was at a briefing, agreed the government's plan would connect air quality with health. "That's going to be the focus for sure — how improvements in environmental quality lead to improvements in the health of Canadians, especially children," he said. http://tinyurl.com/ohr7w [Proofreader's note: this article was edited for spelling and typos on August 30, 2006]

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