Mr. Speaker, that is rubbish. He would blame the 1930s on climate change.
Four years ago an American study determined that implementing Kyoto would increase farm expenses by up to 32%, depress annual farm income by 24% to 48%, diminish agricultural exports and put farmers out of business. It called the Kyoto protocol the single biggest public policy threat to the agricultural community today.
Why is the government moving to ratify Kyoto when our competitors have determined that it will devastate agricultural economies?