Climate change report a welcome step forward in debate full of overheated political rhetoric

To hear Environment Ministers Jim Prentice and Bob Renner tell it you'd think the report constituted the first shot in a renewed East versus West battle for economic supremacy. It's not true.

Ten years ago, I co-chaired Alberta's first round table on climate change. Meeting with 100 opinion leaders from all regions and sectors of the province, we debated our options in the face of what we believed to be a serious economic threat—climate change policies mangled together by an un...

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