| Environment Commissioner Issues Wake-Up Call | 6 October 06 |
 Canada's environment commissioner Johanne Gelinas used an embarrassing audit of the former government's failure to adequately address climate change to send a wake-up call that urges Canada's current federal government to act swiftly against the pending climate crisis."The government urgently needs a believable, clear and realistic plan to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions," Gelinas said. "It must establish and commit to short and long-term national goals." Gelinas also noted that the government's plan should address the long-neglected need to help Canadians cope with the consequences of climate change. The report said Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his government should not continue to use the lack of progress on Canada's Kyoto targets as an excuse to abandon the international pact. The Harper government scrapped an earlier plan developed by the Liberals to meet Canada's international commitments under the Kyoto protocol when it took office last spring. It has promised to deliver a "made-in-Canada solution" when environment Minister Rona Ambrose releases the plan later in October. View the 2006 Report of the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development View the September 28, 2006 Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development press release View the September 28, 2006 Ottawa Citizen article View the September 28, 2006 CBC News article View the September 29, 2006 Toronto Star article View the October 4, 2006 Gazette article Sources: Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable
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