PowerPoint slides which accompanied Robert Sopuck’s speech A New Approach to Environment and Fisheries Management; Less Red Tape and a Better Environment that he gave in Winnipeg on November 2, 2012. He is Member of Parliament for Dauphin-Swan River-Marquette.
Year: 2012
Canadian and U.S. negotiators must highlight developing swindle at this month’s U.N. Climate Change Conference
…if a Cancun-based treaty became international law, GHG reduction would proceed in developing nations only to the extent that it does not interfere with their “first and overriding priorities” of “social and economic development and poverty eradication.” Developed countries would be held to their emission reduction obligations regardless of the impact on their societies.
The growing storm – Obama re-election a threat to Canadian climate and energy policy
In Obama’s second four years, we are likely to get more of what we saw the first time around. Only this time, it will almost certainly be more severe since the President will not have to face the electorate again.
Westerners more likely to buy NetFlix
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Quebec Student Group Will Now Push for Zero Tuition
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PQ Secretly laughing about Harper Government’s Naive Transfers Policy?
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