“One day”, as the other gentleman would say, Mr. Speaker.
We recently learned that TransAlta, a coal producer, made a donation of $25,000 to the leadership campaign of the Minister of Finance, which led this former environment critic to say on Tuesday that the Kyoto protocol should be ratified only if it could be shown that it would help solve the problem of climate change. Honestly.
Does the Deputy Prime Minister not find this quite a coincidence: political donations are made, ministers start putting on the pressure, and then the government backtracks on the Kyoto protocol?