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Stephen Harper is going to run out of items soon, let’s hope. The “I-am-not-telling-you-because-you-ain’t-going-to-like-it” item is the Kyoto Protocol. It has been ‘leaked’ that the Harper government is going to reject the Kyoto Protocol and join a new group made up of the world’s largest polluters. So, this is leadership: leaving the leadership post in perhaps the most important movement for the world future to be a follower of the status quo. Why is the government taking this unpopular move? To spite the Liberal government and its legacy? To serve the oil sand industry? Or, to be the dog for the U.S. government? None of these are for the betterment of Canada or the world. Spite is petty. Oil sand is but one industry, very localized industry. And no Canadian government should work for any other country. There are a lot of hot air coming out of Alberta saying how much a failure Kyoto is. Well, if there is a province that hates the Kyoto Accord, Alberta with it oil sand industry is it. The Harper government is not the Albertan government but the government of the whole of Canada. As such, it should take policies that is supported by at least most of the provinces of this country. Maybe that is why he is afraid of tell us anything at all. If we do not know, we cannot stop him. The mess that is the Liberal Party and the impotence of the NDP are starting to look very attractive; and the prospect of another election not so annoying.