[rktman]

WOW! That makes 2 steps in the right direction now. First telling Brussels to take a hike, now slapping the ecowackos where it hurts. In the wallet. What's next? Telling the u.n. to butt out? Maybe a crackdown on the non-assimilating mooselimbs?

[Winniesboy]

Much to much is being read into this. When a new prime minister appoints a new team of cabinet ministers, it’s quite common also for the government departments for which each of them has responsibility to be repackaged or renamed. That’s what’s happened here. Few of the functions of this department have been abolished: they’ve simply been transferred to a beefed-up business development department. Whether this will result in any significant change of government policy on these issues remains to be seen.