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NRSP Calls on Senate to block Passage of Kyoto Implementation Bill

Senators must engage in "sober second-thought" on destructive and pointless Bill C-288

Ottawa , Canada, February 14, 2007 –The Natural Resources Stewardship Project (NRSP) calls on the Senate of Canada to block passage of Bill C-288, “An Act to ensure Canada meets its global climate change obligations under the Kyoto Protocol.”  

Despite having passed third reading in the House of Commons today, neither the Commons, nor its Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development have properly evaluated the foundation of the bill – the underlying science of global climate change.  The Senate must now do what the Commons have steadfastly refused to do, namely hold open, unbiased and comprehensive hearings into the state of modern climate science before considering passage of a bill that, if implemented, would result in serious economic dislocation for Canada for little or no environmental benefit.

The recent call from environmental lobbyists for media to censor coverage of the intense debate in the climate science community about the causes of the past century's modest warming should alert Senators to the need to examine this issue in greater detail.  Senators must ask: if the publicly-funded scientific research countering Kyoto is (supposedly) so weak, then why are lobbyists so anxious to hide it?

Sir John A. Macdonald described the primary purpose of the Senate as “calmly considering the legislation initiated by the popular branch, and preventing any hasty or ill-considered legislation which may come from that body”.   Never has the need for ‘sober second thought' on ill-considered legislation from The Commons been more crucial than is the case on Bill C-288.

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