Tories Blasted For U.S. Ties

Environment Minister Rona Ambrose, now in Bonn serving as chair of a UN summit on Kyoto, is being accused by all the opposition parties of hitching Canada's plans on global warming to those of the U.S. She has been urged to step down as chair of the summit because the Harper government has declared definitively that Canada will not be able to live up to the Kyoto standards for improving air quality. Bloc MPs said yesterday this made Canada look ridiculous and Bloc Leader Gilles Duceppe wondered why this country was looking to the U.S., not Europe, for leadership on Kyoto. Liberal MP Karen Redman (Kitchener Centre) said: "Will the Prime Minister admit that he is happy to take his orders on global warming from the White House and he wants the rest of the world to do the same?"... Full article: http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=1147729810982&call_pageid=968332188774 [Proofreader's note: this article was edited for spelling and typos on May 17, 2006]

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