To: the Canadian Family,

From: Paul Kemp

Date: May 2,2007

I received the e-mail posted below this morning from a fellow Canadian Ricken Patel, and would like to share these views with those concerned about the climate change and environmental hazards created by the worlds growing industrial activities, especially as this concerns Canada's need for change.  This is your opportunity to let your voice and vote be understood on the importance of leaving behind for our children a world better and cleaner because we were willing to take action on the pressing concerns for a world wide healthy living environment. The present Climate Change and Environmental Conditions can be solved with an intelligent application of scientific knowledge and the will to make the changes required. Those resisting these changes are the very ones who have created these problems for the world to solve. We can solve these problems, by finding better ways through scientific explorations and by willingly undertaking the necessary steps to create clean energy systems to empower our family homes as well as our industries. The OIL DINOSAUR is unwilling to  recognise the problem because it will lead to it's extinction. The family home as well as our industries once before faced the crises we are now all facing in the search to find better methods to create our energy. The family home and the industrial world was once fueled by whale oil, and when the whale became threatened with extinction the world converted to oil as a substitute, now we face once again, a need to retool our industries and begin the production of clean and renewable energy production systems. This is not an option, it is a requirement for the safety and well being of the worlds populations. Please support this transition by making your voice heard by those who have been elected to manage our common affairs. It is the duty of our elected leaders to guarantee the right of public petition not only that our voice is heard but to acknowledge our right to actually rule over and wisely guide, direct and manage our Government. True Representative Governments represent the people. Good science will be mans liberator. Blind science will be our destroyer.

Received by e-mail May 2,2007 pk   

Dear fellow Canadians,

Wow, I couldn't believe it when I heard about our government's sneaky ways of undermining the world's efforts to stop climate change. This week, the press reported Al Gore calling the Harper government plan on CO2 emissions "a complete and total fraud…designed to mislead the Canadian people". Recently, Canada also received the international "Fossil Award" for misleading countries and quietly undermining international efforts at the climate negotiations in Kenya.

Canada? Misleading people and undermining the world's efforts to save their children's futures and stop deadly flooding, storms, desertification, diseases? Not my Canada. Surely not.

Well, it's true. And now I'm a strange mixture of hopping mad and really sad. This isn't our country, not one bit, and we need to let our Prime Minister know which country he's leading, and remind him that he works for us. Please click below to send a message directly to Stephen Harper asking him to come up with a real plan on climate change that doesn't disgrace our nation and let down good people around the world:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/harperdotherightthing

Will the Prime Minister do the right thing this time? It's an election year and he has a minority government. If he knows he can't fool us with a fake plan, he'll have to meet our demand for a real one that doesn't put Canada almost 20 years behind schedule on the Kyoto treaty targets.

We'll need one heck of a flood of messages to get him to finally listen. But Avaaz has over 100,000 members in Canada. If each of us can respond to this message, and then forward this email to a few friends, that's going to add up fast, maybe even to the number of voters that tipped the balance for Harper in the last election. That's a number he'll notice. Oh Canada, let's do it!

http://www.avaaz.org/en/harperdotherightthing  

With much respect and hope,

Ricken Patel,
Director
Avaaz – The World in Action

PS - Here's some links and more information on this issue:

David Suzuki Calls the government's new plan a national embarrassment:

http://www.davidsuzuki.org/latestnews/dsfnews04270701.asp

Reuters reports Canada receives international "Fossil" award for misleading countries on climate change: http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/39038/story.htm

Al Gore Calls Canada's Climate Plan a Fraud: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070430/ap_on_re_ca/gore_canada_warming

 

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