Mr. Speaker, we have a Prime Minister who year after year opposed anything to do with the environment, who referred to Kyoto as “essentially a socialist scheme to suck money out of wealth-producing nations”.
We have an environment minister who had no known interests in the environment. The Prime Minister's change: no road to Damascus conversion; no realization he got the environment wrong. It was a realization he got the politics of the environment wrong, that people actually cared.
Now he says, “I must politically care”. That is what he has given us, some words and lots of selling and spinning, so not up to it.
When will the Prime Minister have a real conversion and care about something other than politics?