moved:
That, in the opinion of this House, the government should not ratify the Kyoto Protocol, or bind Canada to its emissions reduction quotas, since:
(a) Canada’s principal economic competitor, the United States, together with most of the world’s developing countries, would not be bound by the Protocol’s emission reduction quotas;
(b) ratification of the Protocol would impose massive costs on the Canadian economy and result in severe job loss; and
(c) the Kyoto Protocol would do little or nothing to benefit the environment.