The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on March 30 held a hearing on two Republican bills addressing global warming, S. 882 and S. 1776.
Coordinated action creates consensus.
The meeting was convened to determine how the country would divvy up its commitments under the Kyoto accord, which would place emissions limits on nearly all Canadian industries, from electricity production to manufacturing. The story leaked by the meeting s other participants, though, casts doubt on Begin s accusations. According, again, to the Gazette , Begin was upset with plans to regulate emissions by industry rather than by province. Quebec has the lowest per-capita pollution of all the provinces, a situation that Begin wanted recognized and accounted for. The plan, put together by government experts, would have required much change and sacrifice by every province.