Ambrose Misleads

… and not for the first time, nor shall this be the last time that the Minister responsible for Protecting the Oil and Gas Sector at All Costs, Rona Ambrose, is caught misleading:

OTTAWA October 6, The Green Party – Yesterday before the Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development, Minister Ambrose twice cited a report from the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, specifically referencing Daphne Wysham as a source of the following quote “the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) creates an incentive for corruption.” (check against Hansard).

The Green Party Leader, Elizabeth May, contacted Daphne Wysham directly to confirm this statement. The CDM expert, Daphne Wysham, made the following statement in response, “I am horrified that my statement criticizing the CDM has been interpreted by Canada’s Environment Minister as justification for not living up to the terms of the Kyoto Protocol. We absolutely need a vehicle for both curbing emissions in the North and providing resources for clean energy in the south. The CDM may be flawed, but throwing the baby out with the bathwater will set us back decades at a time when action to reduce greenhouse gases is urgently needed. Canada must not violate its legally binding Kyoto commitments.”

I call upon all my fellow Conservative Party members to support urgent action against climate change, and to challenge Minister Ambrose to deal with the issue head on, instead of continually trying to dismiss the subject and talk instead primarily about pollution.

You had a choice, sir

2006–10-06 (UPI) Powell’s wife says Bush used him

WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 Former Secretary of State Colin Powell’s wife says in a new biography that President George W. Bush used her husband to sell the war in Iraq. In “Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell” by Karen DeYoung of the Washington Post, Alma Powell describes the administration’s treatment of her husband as callous. “They needed him to do it because they knew people would believe him,” Mrs. Powell said.

That may be true and many will believe this, just as many were willing to believe Powell over Bush back in late 2002, early 2003. But he had a choice. Powell, of all people, could have stopped the war drums beating by refusing to support a war that he now says he disagreed with.

Its too late for sympathy for Colin Powell.