Canadian Elections Return a Government Hostile to Climate [Hoax] - Ecocentric - TIME.com

what does the Canadian election mean for environmental and climate policy? As it turns out, nothing very good.

Canadian Climate Hawks’ Post Election Survival Guide | GreenPolicyProf

The 2011 Canadian election is very bad news for the climate movement. Climate, and the environment more broadly, was not a significant issue in the election campaign.

Canadian Election Results: No Cap-and-Trade, No Carbon Tax

The stunning victory by Stephen Harper’s Conservatives in Canada’s election means the death of cap-and-trade or a carbon tax in Canada. The Conservative Party’s platform firmly opposed both cap-and-trade and carbon taxes. The Liberal Party, which was annihilated in the election, equally strongly supported imposing a cap-and-trade scheme to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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This is another clear sign that public support for cap-and-trade and other energy-rationing policies is waning. Cap-and-trade has been dead in the United States since the Waxman-Markey bill narrowly passed the House of Representatives on June 26, 2009. And in Australia, the Labour Party government is in deep trouble as a result of proposing a carbon tax. The global warming fad appears to be fading fast.