CBC: Canada serious about environment, Harper tells skeptical Europe

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Dogged by continuing questions over the Maxime Bernier resignation, Prime Minister Stephen Harper stopped off in Bonn, Germany, Wednesday to tell a United Nations biodiversity conference that Canada is serious about environmental protection.

Harper is on the second day of a three-day tour of Europe, with environmental issues at the centre of the agenda. Most European countries are wary of Canada's mixed record on the Kyoto Protocol for greenhouse gas emissions, with far more political and public support for reductions in Europe than is generally found in this country.

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CBC's chief political correspondent, Keith Boag, travelling with the prime minister, said there was little about the address that was new in policy terms.

"The speech was really just a once-over-lightly about how beautiful Canada is," Boag said. "How many lakes and rivers and streams and mountains and forests and fields and so on (the country) has."

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http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/05/28/harper-bonn.html

[daleo]

1. But the real story is:

Canada skeptical about environment, Harper tells serious Europe