Rona Ambrose, Canada’s Environment Minister, headed into this week’s meeting in Bonn as chair of the United Nations Convention on Climate Change with our international reputation in tatters. Having declared that Canada will not meet its international Kyoto commitments to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, the Conservatives tout a relaxed “made in Canada” policy, instead. It’s more like a policy made in corporate boardrooms in Calgary and Houston to divert attention from the gassy elephant sitting in the living room - Alberta’s tar sands.
