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Canada Ranks Worst on Climate Policy Canada Ranks Worst On Climate Policy Among Industrialized Countries: Report Canadian Press OTTAWA -- Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq arrived at a climate change conference in Warsaw late Monday amid exceedingly low expectations. A European report released to coincide with the United Nations conference ranks Canada 55th of 58 countries in terms of tackling greenhouse gas emissions, ahead of only Iran, Kazakhstan and Saudi Arabia. A Washington-based group, the Center for Global Development, issued a separate report Monday that ranked Canada 27th on the environment out of the world's wealthiest 27 countries. And a new national Environics Institute telephone poll in partnership with the David improvement from even the top-ranked country, "The government has not backed up its Suzuki Foundation suggests public confidence Denmark. talk with action." in government as the lead actor in addressing A chart in the study showed that China, Bruce said the good news is that climate change has slumped considerably -- with almost 19.5 per cent of the global provinces and municipalities are taking the lead down six percentage points from the 59 per cent population, was responsible for almost 23 per on tackling climate change. [] recorded a year ago. cent of global emissions. Canada, with 0.5 per The annual UN climate conference is in cent of global population, emitted 1.6 per cent JFK Assassination Quotes its second week of talks as negotiators in of global GHG emissions. * “I didn’t shoot anybody, no sir … I’m just a Warsaw move toward developing a post-2020 Last month, Environment Canada's own patsy.” —Lee Harvey Oswald, who was just 24 international climate change regime. The goal is analysis showed Canada slipped further away years old at the time of the JFK assassination to deliver a new model at the 2015 summit in over the past year from meeting its 2020 Paris. greenhouse emissions targets. * “… [I]t is the most bizarre conspiracy in the "Canada is taking a leadership role in Under the 2009 Copenhagen Accord, history of the world. It’ll come out at a future international climate change efforts by focusing Prime Minister Stephen Harper committed to date.” —Jack Ruby on delivering significant environmental and cutting emissions 17 per cent from 2005 levels economic benefits for all Canadians," Aglukkaq by 2020. Canada is on pace to get only halfway * It was not a federal felony to assassinate a said in a government press release marking her there. United States president until after JFK was departure for Warsaw. Even if long-overdue government murdered. "The government of Canada is regulations on the oil and gas sector are committed to establishing a fair and effective imposed, Environment Canada does not foresee * “I know there is a terrible conspiracy going climate change agreement that includes a scenario where the 2020 target will be met. on in the world right now … The world has the commitments by all major emitters." The highly polarized debate, in which right to hear the truth.” —Jack Ruby According to the latest annual report by the Canadian government claims "significant" the Climate Action Network Europe and environmental benefits while Canada gets * “I now fully realize that only the powers of Germanwatch, Canada is starting from the back trashed by international climate change the Presidency will reveal the secrets of my of the pack. activists, appears to have taken its toll on public brother’s death.” —Robert Kennedy, June 3, "As in the previous year, Canada still opinion. 1968, two days before he was assassinated shows no intention of moving forward with Environics surveyed 2,003 respondents climate policy and therefore remains the worst between Oct. 1-17 this fall and found that belief * Richard Nixon flew out of Dallas the morning performer of all industrialized countries," states in the science on climate change still isn't back of November 22, 1963; he later denied being the report, released Monday in Warsaw. where it was in 2007 "when climate change was there, making him perhaps the only American The comparative report, which has been the hot new issue." who did not remember where he was on that compiled annually by environmental activists Six in 10 respondents said they believe fateful day. since 2005, shows Canada at the bottom of the that climate change is real and caused by human industrialized world in terms of emissions per activity, a marginal increase over 2012 in the * Oswald purchased the alleged murder capita, development of renewable energy and annual poll, but still well back of the 65 per cent weapon, an Italian-made Mannlicher-Carcano international climate policy. who said they believed in 2007. rifle, through the mail for $21.45. However the report's heavy weighting The poll is considered accurate within on policy direction will provide plenty of fuel 2.2 percentage points, 19 times in 20. * “A week before Dallas some woman got for skeptics. And while government -- rather than within two feet of JFK and took his picture. China, the subject of international voluntary actions by industry or consumer -- is ‘She may have assassinated the President,’ an attention this year over deadly air pollution, still seen as the most significant component in official stated flatly … If I were a politician in "improved its performance compared to the tackling climate change, the percentage of danger of assassination and someone got within previous year and climbed up to rank 46," said respondents who believe government is two feet of me I’d fire every bodyguard in my the study, despite China being the biggest essential to the fight is down to 53 per cent this entourage and borrow some guns from de emitter of CO2 on the planet. year, from 59 per cent in 2012. Gaulle. Nobody ever got within two feet of Le China was actually 43rd among 58 "It's clear they're starting to lose trust in General. And I’d stay the hell out of Dallas on countries ranked, but the group leaves the first the federal government," Ian Bruce of the November 22.” —William S. Burroughs three spots empty to reflect room for Suzuki Foundation said in an interview.