What kind of role can Canada play in getting the U.S. onside with global climate change policy?
EM: Clearly, Canada’s role right now is extremely unhelpful and is essentially that of a global saboteur. To say we’re not prepared to reach Kyoto targets because we think it will bring about economic ruin is sending the opposite message from what global leaders have already concluded everywhere except in the U.S. and Australia. M: You’ve called for Canada to withdraw from NAFTA. Doesn’t that threaten to mine cooperation between the U.S. and Canada on climate change? EM: The reason that we need to re-negotiate NAFTA relates to the sections that have not been shown to be in Canada’s best interests – the Chapter 11 provisions around investor protection which have hobbled our ability to regulate toxic chemicals, for example, and the energy chapter, where we have to always sell the highest proportion of the amount of energy we produce to the United States forever. Our first attempt would be to re-negotiate those sections. But If those negotiations weren’t working and we gave the six months
