Harper and Dion share a vested interest in distracted electorate

Any meaningful difference in Canada's environmental performance under Liberals or Conservatives is in the eye of the partisan observer. Nineteen months into its mandate, this 'new' government has yet to prove its any more committed than the old.

OTTAWA–Sometime in the last decade or so politics abandoned achievement for definition. Those in power, or grasping at it, realized that what they do is less important than how they're seen.

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