3 videos responding to Canada withdrawing from Kyoto
Justin Trudeau
Previously denied accreditation by The Harper Government to attend the recent climate talks in Durban, NDP Environment Critic Megan Leslie had risen in Parliament to question Environment Minister Peter Kent about the government’s decision to unilaterally withdraw from Kyoto. When the Minister’s response began with”if she had been in Durban”, deliberately turning the knife on the fact that he had stopped her from going, it was a moment of cataclysmic duplicity sparking outrage from the opposition, culminating in Trudeau calling Minister Kent a “Piece of Shit” (47 secs).
Next Media Animation
Two years ago we blogged about Taipei based NMA as also “possibly a version of internet theatre” just as it was gaining notoriety. At the time, part of our interest stemmed from a contest they were running to have your own avatar become part of the news. They seemed to have stopped that promotion now, but in this case it doesn’t really matter as Canadians are in fact the news.
Rick Mercer
Rick Mercer has been on top of what Canada’s reluctance to accept is global responsibilities by using misleading language like “intensity based targets” for some time. Although some of the responsibility for not implementing Kyoto lies with previous Liberal federal governments, Canada’s global commitments were probably permanently DOA in 2006 when The Harper Government abandoned any pretense of environmental responsibility and this video was made for The Mercer Report.
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