Mr. Speaker, the government seems to think that climate change on the prairies is due to increases in CO
2
. Let me provide some facts.
Records show that the driest five year period in southern Alberta was from 1906 to 1910. The driest 10 year period in the last hundred years was from 1903 to 1913.
If Sir Wilfrid Laurier had signed a Kyoto type of accord in 1910, does the Prime Minister really believe that these droughts would not have happened?