canada election

Canada returns to discontinuous tyranny

Policy hrynyshyn | May 3, 2011

Climate change activists in Canada are understandably depressed by the results of Monday's federal election, which produced a majority Conservative government run by a party with zero interest in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. There are shards of good news lying in the rubble, although they only hint at the possibility of progress in the far-off future. The fact that the new Official Opposition, the New Democrats, support cap-and-trade legislation isn't as positive a development as it could be, considering that they have no chance of influencing government. More interesting is the…