Quebec to stand up for Kyoto even if Ottawa won't

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Quebec has distanced itself from the Harper government's anti-Kyoto stance and will voice its dissent at an international climate-change summit next week, the government said.


Members of all three Quebec political parties represented in the National Assembly unanimously adopted a motion dissociating the provincial legislature from the Conservative government's position on the Kyoto Protocol.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper recently described the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas emission reductions as a "mistake," a contention that Quebec cannot accept, said Premier Jean Charest on Wednesday during debates leading to the vote.


Quebec believes in binding GHG reduction targets, and is within striking distance of reducing its output of carbon dioxide by six per cent of 1990 levels, the premier said.


The province will continue to strive to reach those targets despite Ottawa's decision to abandon the deal, Quebec Environment Minister Line Beauchamp said.

The province will also make its position clear at United Nations climate change talks next week in Bali, Indonesia, she vowed.


The UN talks will launch negotiations to extend the Kyoto Protocol past its 2012 deadline.



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If Quebec wasn't so hell bent on leaving Canada

I would love it so much

I think in allot of areas the rest of the provinces can learn allot from Quebec

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you know why our former prime minister was against it? it was because the top 3 countries with the highest emissions were not part of it. i guese if your going to be part of a system to reduce emissions, you would want the 3 worse offenders to be part of it.

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Ya and thanks to harper and ur former PM the commonwealth aka 53 countries don't have a hard line plan to tackle this

ya the three worst aren't in it were going to need another plan with them
but 53 countries
that would make a big difference

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couldn't agree more