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Peter Kent makes lemons out of lemonade

“Designed to Fail”. That should be the motto of Peter Kent and the Conservatives’ ‘environmental mismanagement’.

NDP Environment Critic Megan Leslie (Halifax, N.S.) accused the government of creating a climate change plan that is “designed to fail.”

“There’s absolutely no reporting mechanism, we know nothing about where this money went,” Ms. Leslie told the Hill Times. “How is that good fiscal management? It makes no sense. If you look at the long-term implications, these reports say that climate change is going to cost us billions per year within 10 years.”

Liberal MP Kirsty Duncan (Etobicoke North, Ont.), her party’s environment critic, said that the government’s efforts showed a lack of “moral and intergenerational responsibility.”

Said Ms. Duncan: “I think this is a government that wants as little to do with climate change and I think it’s trying to download adaptation to the provinces and the municipalities. You need leadership at all levels of government.”

But don’t tell that to Peter Kent. It’s all fine and dandy in his world. A recent report by National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy and the Environment Commissioner (NRTEE) critical of the Cons’ approach to Climate Change is good news for Conservatives! It always is.

Environment Minister Peter Kent (Thornhill, Ont.) welcomed the report from the environment commissioner, touting the government’s “sector-by-sector” approach to reducing emissions as a viable strategy for meeting Canada’s 2020 Copenhagen commitment. Mr. Kent also pointed out that the second half of the environment commissioner’s report gave a positive review of the government’s oil sands environmental monitoring system, which was announced earlier this year. The system is intended to collect data on the impacts of oil sands development on air, water and biodiversity, and inform future environmental impact assessments.

Cross posted at Let Freedom Rain

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