Canada House to try to force Kyoto compliance - Reuters

[Eugene]

Canada House to try to force Kyoto compliance

1 hour, 6 minutes ago

OTTAWA (Reuters) - The Canadian House of Commons was poised on Wednesday
to pass a bill designed to force the minority Conservative government to achieve
the steep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions required by the Kyoto Protocol on
climate change.

It was the latest in a series of initiatives in Parliament to push the government
to take tougher action to fight global warming but, unlike previous nonbinding
motions, this would carry the force of law if it eventually passes all stages.

"He is not over the law," the bill's Liberal author, Pablo Rodriguez, said of
Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

The bill would require the government to prepare a plan within 60 days that
describes the measures Canada will take to meet its Kyoto obligation to reduce
greenhouse gases to 6 percent below 1990 levels by 2012.

-snip-

Full article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070214/wl_canada_nm/canada_globalwarming_canada_bill_col_2