Posted on 10/13/2010 6:47:20 AM PDT by Leigh Patrick Sullivan
Lets look at the potential bright side of Canadas humiliating loss of a temporary seat on the United Nations Security Council Tuesday to wait for it Portugal!
Could this international slap in the face to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Conservatives voting an economic basket case like Portugal onto the Security Council instead of us finally knock some sense into the Tories on climate change?
Face it, folks, the UN hates us. It really, really hates us.
You cant support Israel and condemn Hamas with this crowd and expect to come up smelling like roses.
Thus punched in the gut by the with few exceptions nest of vipers known as the UN General Assembly, will the Conservatives now do the sensible thing and pull us out of the UNs negotiations to draft a successor agreement to the Kyoto accord?
Negotiations which, if successful, will be a train wreck for Canadas still fragile as Finance Minister Jim Flaherty now acknowledges recovery?
Im hoping the answer is yes.
Im betting the answer is no.
And that, inexplicably, Canadas delegation, presumably led by Environment Minister Jim Prentice, will merrily head off to yet another round of UN global warming negotiations in Cancun next month, only to have the living crap kicked out of it by its domestic and foreign political and environmental enemies.
Theyll point to Canadas first-ever failure to obtain a temporary seat on the Security Council as divine punishment for our original sin of failing to implement the economically devastating (to us) Kyoto accord, even though were only responsible for 2% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
In response, well insist were doing our part, at which point well be hit with a tsunami of orchestrated indignation.
If you thought things were bad at the UNs climate talks in Copenhagen last December, where we won the Colossal Fossil award as the worlds worst global warming offender even though thats China you aint seen nothin yet.
This is the continuing fallout of Jean Chretiens dumb display of hubris when he ratified the Kyoto accord without having any idea of how to implement it, the root cause of why were impossibly behind our Kyoto targets today and why implementing it now would be an economic disaster.
Thats why I want the old Harper back. The one who, when he was Canadian Alliance leader, correctly identified Kyoto (and its spawn) as a socialist, money-sucking scheme to transfer wealth from rich countries to poor ones with emerging economic powerhouses like China and India, bizarrely defined as poor.
Now we have a new Harper, who, while admittedly much saner on this issue than the opposition parties, pays lip service to the Kyoto process, while failing to implement the Kyoto accord, because he knows it would devastate our economy.
On Tuesday, the Conservatives, worried Canadians will blame them for our humiliation at the UN, fingered Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff for not supporting Canadas bid for a Security Council seat.
Problem is, the Conservatives engineered this gambit. Nobody forced them to do it.
Instead, since the UN has handed us a lemon, lets make lemonade.
Thats why Harper should use this snub as an opportunity to say goodbye to the UNs insane global negotiations on climate change.
The UN would find a better environment by moving to Portugal. Maybe the food wouldn’t measure up...
Face it, folks, the UN hates us. It really, really hates us.
What happened while I wasn't looking? The Canadians are on the wrong side of the UN's socialist hive mind?
Yep- like the article suggests, since we elected a (minority) Conservative gov’t, our support of Isreal has grown significantly. That, plus failing(?) to meet the targets of the idiotic Kyoto Accord - a UN favorite - has besmudged Canada’s rep at the U.N. As you can tell, there are many Canucks such as myself who couldn’t give a damn.
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