Eye of the Storm: Discord in Denmark

15 December, 2009 | Jeff Beyer

Environment Minister Jim Prentice insists that Canada must march to America’s climate­ drum, but the rest of the world is singing a different tune. Throughout the year, Prentice insisted that his ministry would “ensure that all of our domestic climate change policies are clearly enunciated to the Canadian public by the time we get to Copenhagen.” On November 2, however, he conceded that greenhouse gas regulations would not be announced before December’s international climate change conference.