Scott's DiaTribes » Copenhagen

Well, Harper’s being consistent here anyhow

Scott Tribe — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:55:30 +0000

Harper decided not to bother speaking at the Copenhagen Environmental Summit; he decided to send Environment Minister Jim Prentice instead to make Canada’s speech:

Gordon Brown, Nicolas Sarkozy, Angela Merkel, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad – and Jim Prentice? While other world leaders have taken to the podium this week to address delegates at the Copenhagen climate talks, Prime Minister Stephen Harper is sending his environment minister in his place.

Harper has other plans – he will join other leaders at a dinner hosted by the Queen of Denmark

Nice to see Harper is trying to groom Jim Prentice to the world stage.

One thing you can say though – Harper [...]

Harper AWOL at UN Climate meetings – and gets called out by CTV’s Robert Fife (!)

Scott Tribe — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:58:57 +0000

When Bob Fife of CTV News calls Harper out on this as well as the lack of “any significant action on the environment” from his government, that’s blunt indeed, coming from CTV News.

Harper would rather meet the Mayor of New York then 100 world leaders – including President Obama – on this crucial meeting leading up to Copenhagen. Really though, in defense of Harper, why should he show up at this meeting when he and everyone else at this conference knows he’s just going to hastily follow whatever President Obama ends up doing (It was nice though that he decided to show up for the free dinner [...]