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Canadian Lawmakers Pass Climate Change Act (Cap & Tax)
The Environmental Leader ^ | May 7, 2010

Posted on 05/08/2010 10:27:33 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Canada’s House of Commons passed the New Democrat Climate Change Accountability Act in a final vote of 149 to 136. The legislation will reduce greenhouse gases by 25 percent below 1990 levels by 2020, reports Winnipeg Free Press.

The legislation, also known as Bill-C311, is more stringent than the Harper government’s goal of a 17 percent emissions cut from 2005 levels by 2020, which matches the Obama administration’s targets in the United States.

The bill still has to be approved by the Senate before it becomes law, reports the Toronto Sun.

The legislation also establishes a long-term target to reduce GHG emissions by 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050. It also allows the government to establish regulations to meet the targets and set penalties for those who violate the regulations under the Act.

Meanwhile, in the U.S. after several delays, the Senate is expected to unveil its climate change bill next week, reports Reuters. But it’s not likely to have the support of Republican lawmaker Lindsey Graham, who walked away from Senate talks on climate legislation over the Democrats plans to work on immigration legislation this year.

Democratic Senator John Kerry, who took lead on the legislation, told Reuters that Graham “stands by” the bill, but said immigration reform is also still on the table for the Senate discussion.

Independent Senator Joe Lieberman also said in the article that offshore oil drilling provisions of the climate bill were under discussion in the aftermath of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

The bill is expected to now include much stronger protection for coastal areas, where there are concerns about possible offshore drilling.


TOPICS: Canada; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: canada; capandtax; carbontrade; climatechange; congress; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; linseedgrahamnesty; obama; oilspill
Just peachy!
1 posted on 05/08/2010 10:27:33 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Didn’t anyone hear that carbon emmissions hurting the planet is BS.


2 posted on 05/08/2010 10:36:37 PM PDT by o-n-money
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I question the sanity of any human who would live North of 35° latitude.


3 posted on 05/08/2010 10:45:58 PM PDT by TruthHound ("He who does not punish evil commands it to be done." --Leonardo da Vinci)
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To: o-n-money; steelyourfaith; NormsRevenge; Fred Nerks; blam; SunkenCiv; Grampa Dave; SierraWasp; ...

The Politicians want more money...


4 posted on 05/08/2010 10:55:24 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The legislation will reduce greenhouse gases by 25 percent below 1990 levels by 2020

Wow, just like those killing SUVs and murdering guns.
5 posted on 05/08/2010 11:00:39 PM PDT by tang-soo (Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks - Read Daniel Chapter 9)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Does Harper have a veto option?


6 posted on 05/08/2010 11:03:57 PM PDT by princeofdarkness ("Obama Lied. Liberty, Morality, and Prosperity Died.")
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O Neighbor of the North, prepare to be miserable...

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7 posted on 05/08/2010 11:54:47 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (70 mph shouldn't be a speed limit; it shoud be a mandate!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Politicians playing the “climate card”.


8 posted on 05/09/2010 12:07:59 AM PDT by FrankR (Standing up against tyranny must start somewhere, or the future will belong to the tyrants.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“which matches the Obama administration’s targets in the United States.”

No Coincidence, who met with who? Sounds like a green communist conspiracy to me.


9 posted on 05/09/2010 3:18:22 AM PDT by dila813
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I reckon the political elites insist on a return on investment.

Thanx !

 


Beam me to Planet Gore !

10 posted on 05/09/2010 3:23:22 AM PDT by steelyourfaith ("Let his days be few; and let another take his office. " - Psalm 109:8)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The legislation will reduce greenhouse gases by 25 percent below 1990 levels by 2020

I'll accept that as the goal but no legislation is that powerful.

11 posted on 05/09/2010 3:43:11 AM PDT by jimfree (In 2012 Sarah Palin will continue to have more relevant quality executive experience than B. Obama.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“The legislation also establishes a long-term target to reduce GHG emissions by 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050.”

Ha!!! Our bill is better than your bill. Nananana. We’re better theeeen you. Nananana. WE WILL CUT GHG BY 83%.

(how Democrats think)


12 posted on 05/09/2010 4:22:41 AM PDT by BobL
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I'll accept that as the goal but no legislation is that powerful.

It is if you enforce poverty at the point of a gun...

Canada, and soon the USA will commit the sin of economic suicide (or at least add to it) by crippling their economies. Mexico, Latin America, and China will finish taking over all production and wealth creating industries.

Carbon IS life, not death.

Why are they doing this? I ask not about the governments, because we know that are pushing communism. I ask WHY are average citizens doing this to themselves? Why are they going along with this nonesense?

13 posted on 05/09/2010 5:55:41 AM PDT by SteamShovel (When hope trumps reality, there is no hope at all.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Great. Now we can see the pressure ramping up for us to do it as well.


14 posted on 05/09/2010 10:51:58 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; Ernest_at_the_Beach

The cap a traders must be licking their chops. So much easy money to be had.


15 posted on 05/09/2010 12:28:46 PM PDT by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned....)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; fanfan

It’s so unlike them. :’)


16 posted on 05/09/2010 7:09:41 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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17 posted on 05/10/2010 2:51:30 AM PDT by Clive
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To: princeofdarkness

I don’t think Harper has a veto but I can tell you he will probably have a plan. THIS IS NOT HARPER. He’s not one of this global bullshit CO2 community. He is a God fearing man who honors God first. He just has a minority government at the moment but that could well change. In fact, I KNOW Harper personally and he will do anything he can to change this wicked vote. CO


18 posted on 05/10/2010 7:12:02 PM PDT by Canadian Outrage (Conservatism is to a country what medicine is to a wound - HEALING!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I D I O T S !
19 posted on 05/11/2010 1:49:15 PM PDT by StACase (Global Warming is CRAP!)
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