Baird: Minister of Environment or Environment’s Worst Ennemy?
Posted by Peter Endisch on December 30th, 2007 at 20:42 PST (Global Climate Change)
Environment minister “haunted” by past and present as political operator opposed to environmental initiatives.
BALI, INDONESIA, on December 10, 2007: John Baird was at the centre of international attention during that week’s climate change talks there. The international community was adjusting to a Canada that initially promoted the Kyoto protocol and whose top ministers were then undermining it with proposed revisions that appear to favour big polluters such as Alberta’s oil industry.