Canada will not sign onto a new agreement that does not include all major [ CO₂] emitters.
~ Christian Paradis (born: 1974-01-01 age: 38) Conservative Minister of Industry, government spokesperson on the environment. Hansard 2011-11-28 .

Canada is the only country reneging on its obligations of the Kyoto treaty. By Paradis’s reasoning you could say, “I won’t go on a diet and stop smoking until all the other grossly obese smokers do so as well.”. When I was a child I heard Peter O’Toole and Siân Phillips do The Taming of the Shrew on a LP. In Act IV scene iii, Petruchio denies the famished Kate meat finding every excuse why it is not suitable. Then he denies her clothing claiming the tailor’s offering was “a custard-coffin, a bauble, a silken pie”. Paradis, Kent and Harper are using that same old tactic to deny Canada climate change action.