Canada's new Conservative government tabled its budget yesterday, and with it reversed the previous government's commitment to the Kyoto Protocol.
"Canada's Conservative government on Tuesday slashed funds for environmental programs designed to cut greenhouse gas emissions, a move that critics said gutted support for the Kyoto accord on global warming.
Instead, Harper's ruling party said it would develop a new 'made-in-Canada' program to reduce smog and offered a tax credit to try to increase public transit usage. The government's environmental plan -- one paragraph in a budget document replacing 25 pages in the previous government's budget -- drew immediate protest.
'These are dramatic cutbacks,' said Jack Layton, head of the opposition New Democratic Party. 'Every Canadian out there has become more and more aware of the crisis of climate change, but our government is going in the other direction.'"
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