Deeper Shade of Green

Al Gore made a stop in Toronto yesterday, part of the Green Living Show, the first “green consumer show” hosted by the city. But before Gore put up his first slide he told the audience he wanted to make a comment and he wanted to make sure he did it before the media had left. Gore than lashed out at the federal conservatives for focusing on intensity of emissions rather than tough, overall reductions in the absolute amounts of pollution.He went on to say that Canada is a country known for moral leadership and “standing up for what is right in the world.”

The Conservative government has taken the easy route and produced an environmental plan that is a “complete and total fraud” on the Canadian public, former U.S. vice-president Al Gore told a Toronto audience yesterday.

“(Harper) is under a lot of pressure and he has chosen the easy wrong over the hard right,” Gore thundered to applause from the packed crowd.

Critics of the Harper government’s plan say that while it talks the talk – the overall theme is reducing greenhouse gas emissions – it is vague and fails to spell out the specific regulations that will be needed to effect change. Gore said the plan was “designed to mislead the Canadian people.”

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