Eastern Provinces Step up on Environment

While Alberta, Canada's richest province, wallows in denial and cheap Petro-dollars, Canada's "have-nots" are showing a little more balls:

NEWPORT, R.I. (CP) - Canada's eastern premiers said Friday they're willing to take a leadership role when it comes to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

The premiers, during an annual meeting in Newport with governors from the New England states, said they're sticking to their previously stated target of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2010. "A lot of us are trying to take a leadership role there, and hope our federal partners will come along," said P.E.I. Premier Pat Binns, the meeting's co-chair.

Frankly, it is a disgrace to our current federal government, a disgrace to Conservatives in general, and a disgrace to Albertans in particular, that they are willing to abandon the slightest semblance of social responsibility for money, while leaving the hard slogging in the fight against global warming to places like Prince Edward Island. I think "The West" has to learn that, as they say, "with great power comes great responsibility". Governing Canada is supposed to be about more than allowing the local oil companies that keep Calgary in cheap hooch and cowboy boots to go on a rampage at the expense of the rest of the nation.