Jeffrey Simpson and I are sharing a laugh

Dion continues his plan to spend massive amounts of taxpayer money and accomplish less than nothing. He hopes people don't remember that dion himself said the Kyoto targets are not attainable.Dion hopes people forget the massive fiberal waste and failures on this issue. Dion will now whine its not fair, you cant quote what I said before. Its not fair to use Dion's words against Dion. Grow up dion.
I just choose to laugh with Jeffrey Simpson:
Why I'm laughing at the Liberals' Kyoto motion
JEFFREY SIMPSON
Judging by yesterday's debate on climate change in the House of Commons, the opposition parties obviously believe the Canadian public is confused about the Kyoto Protocol. They are probably right.

Polls show that most Canadians want us to fulfill our Kyoto commitments. In their minds, Kyoto equals concern about climate change. Presumably, such an equation led Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion to propose an opposition day motion calling on the government to "honour the principles and targets of the Kyoto Protocol in their entirety."

Great, except for one incontrovertible fact: There is no conceivable way that Canada can meet its Kyoto targets "in their entirety."

If Mr. Dion or the opposition MPs who agreed with him don't know this, they should be sent to a special cram school on Kyoto. If they do know this -- and chances are, they do -- they are being political disingenuous or intellectually dishonest or, worse, both.

Fact: Canada committed itself at Kyoto in 1995 to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by 6 per cent below 1990 levels by 2008-2012. The Chrétien government ratified the protocol in 2002.

Fact: Emissions have increased 27 per cent since then, so Canada is 33 per cent above target. We are likely to wind up 36 per cent to 38 per cent off target by 2012.

Fact: In 2004, when Canada had to report Kyoto progress, the country was missing its target by 195 million tonnes. In 2006, we were missing it by 225 million tonnes. By the end of the first Kyoto period, 2012, if current trends continue (and they will), our so-called Kyoto gap will be 260 to 280 million tonnes.

Fact: It is impossible to take that many tonnes of greenhouse-gas emissions out of the Canadian economy in the next 4½ years.

Parliamentarians can puff themselves up like blowfish and issue denials. They can present motions in the House of Commons. They can even present a private member's bill, as a Liberal MP has done, calling on the government to meet these targets, and get that bill endorsed by the NDP and the Bloc Québécois. It cannot be done.

So, when yesterday's Liberal motion insisted that the "government must create and publish a credible plan to reduce Canada's greenhouse-gas emissions to meet Canada's Kyoto commitments," the only sensible reaction was to laugh.

Not only could the commitments not be made, but this motion came from a party that presented four -- four, count 'em -- "actions plans" that did squat to reduce emissions. Worse, the last plan, the one designed by Mr. Dion as environment minister, was a mishmash of subsidies and failed programs to which he apparently remains wedded.