Politicians worldwide should take note

Harper's second minority suits the national mood

Canadians' passion for environmental causes has now been subject to a direct test, albeit under adverse economic conditions, and measured with tremendous exactitude. It turns out that jobs and savings accounts still come first with the public. Columnists, activists and pollsters have been telling us for years that global warming is the great issue of the age, and poor Mr. Dion was really foolish enough to believe them; perhaps he was a victim of his own detached academic character.