Well, I guess the question is how you explain the fact, then, that on February 12, following your quoting of him, Al Gore says, “I understand that last week Canada's minister of the environment, John Baird, mischaracterized comments I made last summer”--that is to say, the summer of 2006--“as praise for the...government's actions on global warming”. He was saying what he hoped you would do would be in fact to carry on the good work of the previous government.
On December 4th, 2007. See this statement in context.