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uring his Xmas television interview Harper announced to Canadians that he was "already starting to hear the first cries from industry and the provinces about the upcoming emissions targets." I can't believe that Harper is still flogging this to the public. the only reason for him to say anything like this would be in order to politicise the whole enviromental issue ahead of the reported February election.In fact many of the provinces have already begun to enact legislation and policy to meet the Kyoto targets Harper says are impossible. Quebec and Manitoba for instance are well on the way. These complaints Harper is hearing, if in fact there are any, must be coming from businessmen who are blind and deaf or incompetent. Any citizen of this great country of ours should have seen this all coming down the pipe years ago when Kyoto was first proposed, or at least when Chretien ratified it. If I ran a business and was aware that in the next ten to fifteen years I was going to be forced to change my emission volumes I would have made slow continuous changes to my companies strategies and practices to bring those emissions down ahead of schedule placing me ahead of any competitor who failed to act and ensuring profits for my shareholders. Some companies are doing just that now. Unfortunately many of the the corporate bigwigs here in Canada and the United States who are amongst the worst polluters have hid there heads in the sand and pretended that this was all going to fade away. Worse than that they actually went out and tried to prolong the debate over climate change, muddying the issue, funding junk science, and refuting the staggering ,overwhelming evidence showing that global climate change is real and the human race is causing it. Now these corporate brain-trusts are going to try yet again to weasel out of doing the things they must in order to fix the problems we have created. If I held any shares in the oil and gas sector particularly I would be some ticked off at my CEO's for utterly and completely failing their investors. I would be wanting some heads to roll. I might even want them to fork over some of the multimillion dollar bonuses they've been collecting to make up for their total mishandling of the climate change issue. I would even suggest to hard working Canadians it might be time to transfer all of your carefully invested dollars into some green portfolios before the big crunch!!!!