Climate change and Parliamentary democracy: both on the rocks?

Tories and Grits delay bill that would require the Canadian government set regulations to attain medium-term greenhouse gas emission reductions of 25 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020, and long-term reductions of 80 per cent below 1990 levels by 2050

HALIFAX—The vote in the House on Oct. 21 on whether to delay Bill C-311, the Climate Change Accountability Act, by sending it back to the Standing Committee on the Environment and Sustainable Development for further consideration, may seem like a trivial item of Parliamentary process, howev...

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