OK, here are some more facts - from the Sierra Club this time. It is critical of both the Libs and the CPOC.
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070110/ghg_record_070110/20070115/
..."The $10 billion, eight-year climate change plan -- steered by then-environment minister Stephane Dion -- that the Liberals ultimately tabled received a mixed reaction. Some environmental groups saying it didn't do enough to control industrial emissions.
However, Bennett said it contained some good measures like the EnerGuide retrofitting program, which helped homeowners make their dwellings more energy efficient. The Conservatives cancelled that program.
This past fall, the Conservatives' Clean Air Act was essentially dead on arrival. The bill didn't even mention the Kyoto accord and no opposition party was prepared to support it.
The bill took the unusual step of going to an all-party committee after first reading to see if it can be salvaged.
"The Conservatives threw out the best of what the Liberals did and kept the worst," Bennett said of the Clean Air Act.
Harper still paints Kyoto as unachievable, even after his recent cabinet shuffle and announcement that the environment is now one of his government's top five priorities.
"This country is headed to be 50 percent over its Kyoto target in 2012. We can't tell the Canadian population to heat their home one-third less of the time," Harper said in a CTV Question Period interview broadcast on Jan. 7.
"I thought he was setting me up when he said that," Bennett chuckled, noting that proper retrofitting can help cut a home's energy use by at least a third.
He argues the public sees climate change as a significant problem, wants real leadership on this issue and is ready for it. The prime minister appears to be throwing his hands up and not willing to even try, he said."....
