Reality Check: Liberal history on climate change Part 2

It seems the Liberal Party has forgotten their record – 13 long years of inaction on climate change. And to make matters worse, it was willful, not accidental inaction.

In his own words, here is Eddie Goldenberg, Chief of Staff to Liberal Prime Minister Jean Chretien commenting about the decision to sign the Kyoto Accord:

“I believe that the signing of the Kyoto accord in the face of vigorous opposition served to galvanize public opinion to bring it to where it is today in Canada. In the long run, that will be far more important than whether we can meet all the short term deadlines in the accord… Nor was the government itself even ready at the time with what had to be done.”

– Canadian Press, Joan Bryden, February 22, 2007

In plain words: this former Liberal Chief of Staff is saying the signing of the Kyoto Accord was a publicity stunt. He admits that the Liberals actually had no intention and no plan to achieve the greenhouse gas reductions they were promising.

So while Liberals try to re-write history, we will continue remind Canadians of the failure of successive Conservative and Liberal governments on fighting climate change.

Canadians deserve better than more double speak from the old line parties.