Eating Seal Meat While the Planet Burns

Just how much more messed up can Canadian politicians appear to the rest of the world? Plenty, it turns out.

Canada lost whatever was left of its international boy scout image during the Copenhagen UN climate negotiations last December. Turns out our government cares much more about strip mining for oil than it does about passing along a stable atmosphere to our children.

So, what are we doing to clean the tarnished maple leaf? Well, after a prorogation to Own the Podium, we come back with a budget that cements our last place showing in the race to get a piece of the emerging two and a half trillion dollar clean energy market, and then key up a seal meat buffet in the Parliamentary restaurant so that our politicians can all poke their fingers in the eyes of those nasty Europeans.

In your face, world! We own the dirty oil podium too and will beat all challengers away with seal picks!

Oh Canada. All thy sons command quite a mess.

Matt Price
Policy Director
Environmental Defence Canada