Canada Seeks Joint Climate Action Plan with US. By Jim Hoggan, DeSmogBlog, November 6, 2008. "The world enjoyed the first environmental dividend of an Obama presidency yesterday when a worried Canadian government proposed a joint North American action plan to address climate change. Although it appeared that Canada's real goal was to ensure a continued U.S. market for its huge dirty-fuel tar sands project, this could still be a solid step toward a continental cap-and-trade program -- which would be the first significant gesture from the world region that, so far, has been the least responsible in its approach to global warming. Since its first election two years ago, the Conservative government of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has worked in lock step with the Bush administration in an effort to forestall significant international action on climate change."
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