You've got to be kidding. Most Canadians are close to the environment. We camp, we canoe, we snowmobile, we ski. The more bloodthirsty among us hunt and fish. We are blessed with a vast, largely empty wilderness at our doorsteps.
Greenery is a part of our national identity.
This makes the issue an easy hot button for arousing public emotions. Our environment has never been cleaner, healthier, and better. Yet you wouldn't know it if you listened to the hysteria and misinformation disseminated by partisan organizations. It raised the specter of flooding coastal cities, dying forests, widespread malaria, and crop failures. It blamed our politicians for putting economic growth ahead of reduced greenhouse gas levels and fingered the petroleum industry, Imperial Oil in particular, for resisting emission curbs.