Posted on 12/09/2005 12:04:23 PM PST by fanfan
The White House has officially complained about Prime Minister Paul Martin's comments this week at the climate change conference in Montreal.
Paul Martin's made his comments this week at the climate change conference in Montreal.
Jim Connaughton, chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality, has told Canadian Ambassador Frank McKenna that Martin's comments are the worst slight against President George W. Bush since Germany's Gerhard Schroeder suggested Bush's stance against the Kyoto Protocol was responsible for hurricane Katrina.
"My understanding is that Mr. Connaughton made very clear his unhappiness over Mr. Martin's comments and particularly singling out the United States," a State Department official said, the Canadian Press reported.
"There is such a thing as a global conscience," Martin said Wednesday at the UN Conference on Climate Change.
"Now is the time to listen to it. Now's the time to join with others in our global community. Now is the time for resolve, for commitment and leadership and, above all, now is the time for action. Because only by coming together can we make real and lasting progress."
In October, outgoing chancellor Schroeder said: "I can think of a recent disaster that shows what happens when a country neglects its duties of state towards its people ....
"My post as chancellor, which I still hold, does not allow me to name that country, but you all know that I am talking about America."
Later today, Martin will be meeting with former U.S. president Bill Clinton at the conference.
Bernard Etzinger, a Canadian embassy spokesman in Washington, told Canadian Press that McKenna asked Connaughton for the meeting as part of their regular encounters.
"We asked for the meeting to talk about the (climate-change) proposals and how the U.S. was responding," Etzinger said.
CBC News correspondent Neil Macdonald said he has been told that the Americans are watching the election campaign, and if there is too much anti-U.S. rhetoric, that it would an impair progress on sensitive political issues between the countries.
Martin needs to complain about a polluter a little closer to home:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1527140/posts
Global conscience? This is just more Franco-German elitism. They are becoming an increasingly irrelevant political entity. Nations that can't defend themselves will lose meaningful power, but not their bully pulpit it looks like.
I'm hoping that the next GOP administration, whenever that happens, will pull the rest of the troups out of western Europe. Perhaps repeal the Monroe Doctrine, at the same time.
Europe's democracies are adolescent, and they don't even have a EU constitution yet. They are a couple of hundred years of experience behind the U.S. in that regard. The best thing for intransigent teenagers to set them off on their own, and force them out of home. Let the petulant youngster make it on his own.
Did he recognize that his country puts out more emissions per capita than the US?
And that his country has been putting out emissions at a much faster rate than the US since they've adopted Kyoto?
Hypocrites!
Is this McKenna fellow the same one that used to be Premier (or governor or whatever you call them there) of New Brunswick? I can remember being in NB some years ago, maybe 15 or so, and seing signs everywhere about how you couldn't trust McKenna. In 2 languages, no less!! Not sure what that was all about.
Can us Canadians with Conservative memberships still come?
On one level I know that you're correct and I agree that he is a pathetic vessel roaming the Earth. However, when world leaders open their doors to him and, the world wide, America hating media report these meetings, it gives the appearance to the uninformed that Xlinton cares more about everything than President Bush. And it acts as a reminder that if they want the Toon redux, they can do so by putting Hitlery in office.
Sorry, I don't know.
He will be, if us Canadian Conservatives have anything to say about it.
Jan. 23/06.
Also I read somewhere that although we didn't sign up for Kyoto we had a better record last year than Canada.
I believe I read that too.
LOL!
Good for Alberta!
He's the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada.
'nuff said.
Premier, and yes.
Maybe it would help if I pinged the whole list...not just myself!
Canada Ping!
It's fashionable to bash the US...and they know they can get away with it b/c there are no consequences.
You never see them bashing other countries though, because there would be hell to pay if they did.
You got it! :)
US scientist on his experience at Montreal Kyoto conference -- Safely inside the comfortably heated convention center, I marveled at this massive, UN-guided, international effort to avert global catastrophe. The effort has been gathering momentum for about fifteen years, and now has taken on a life of its own.
Logic eludes them.
Me thinks a Photo op was not missed by Mr Dither
One can contact Canada's Prime Minister Paul Martin at:
pm@pm.gc.ca
From: http://www.pm.gc.ca/eng/contact.asp
Unfortunately, Canadian Conservatives have the deck stacked against them. You've got the corrupt Liberals, the pinko NDP, and the Bloc. Hopeless. You deserve better than that.
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