Don't be naive on climate change, Norway’s former PM cautions Canada

[Joe Shlabotnik]

1. Sorry, but Naive is how we do things around here.

The Prime minister of Norway describes her country as one that Canada could have become but choose not to after Mulrooney came in. The scrapping of our national energy plan, the privatization of infrastructure, and foreign ownership of natural resources killed any hope of creating a sovereign social wealth fund for the future. Chretien made it worse with by going along with Nafta. The Climate change denial is here to stay for the next 3+ years, and the laissez-faire naiveté will stick with us as long as we have either Conservative or Liberal parties in power at a federal level. Hopefully over the next few years the pendulum will swing leftwards towards the responsible, equitable and sustainable, instead of short term gain and wishful thinking.