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From CBC.ca

This could be just election positioning or a minority government trying to stave off parliamentary defeat. In any event, Environment Minister John Baird has certainly set the political tom-toms beating furiously with his contention that meeting the Kyoto targets “next year” would plunge Canada into an extreme recession.

The context here is the government’s own clean air bill, which the opposition parties toughened up considerably while in committee, with the intention that it would be the vehicle to meet Canada’s Kyoto obligations.

The bill is coming up for a final vote in Parliament any day now, and Baird’s argument is that if it is forced through, as currently amended, it would require the federal government to take drastic actions — in particular, an onerous carbon tax approaching $200 a tonne — that would wreck the economy.

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