Liberals question Conservative link to anti-Kyoto group
By Mike De Souza, Canwest News Service, Calgary Herald
OTTAWA - David McGuinty was baffled when he first heard provocative advertising about global warming in the midst of the 2006 federal election.
The radio spots criticized a consumer energy conservation program along with the climate change policies of the government of the day and appeared to come from nowhere, he said.
“I was having to explain an awful lot about climate change at the door, as a candidate,” said McGuinty, the Liberal MP for Ottawa South, in an interview. “So when I heard this, I thought, ‘Well, why would anybody even run these ads in Ottawa? Why are they going here? And I didn’t know they were going across the province in five zones at the time.”
