I read, with great interest, Max’s summary of Canadian politics in last week’s Pique (“The irrelevance of Canada’s ‘only relevant’ political party—The Greens,” Nov. 24). I couldn’t help but notice your scathing assessment of the Conservatives.
You made a very small point of our climate mitigation being “a fart in the wind.”
As Canada contributes 1.5 per cent of the world’s emissions, we could shut down our entire economy and have virtually zero impact on global emissions. Making this point does not make me or anyone else a “climate denier”—as it’s a fact.
Now I would like you to tell me how the Liberals are going to have any impact on world emissions by taxing Canadians to death.
The rich countries of the world need to share our technologies as well as our energy (natural gas) to those countries that are still burning coal.
If we help them, it will help the world.
Right now the Liberals are standing in the way!
Steve St. Arnaud // Whistler
