An open letter to Stephen Harper

Dear Prime Minister,

 

I'm writing this open letter to express my extreme disappointment at the irresponsible stance you and your government  have taken Canada into at COP15, the Copenhagen Climate Summit - 2009.

 

Canada is a multicultural nation of immigrants, people from all over the world.  These I believe include people from Bangladesh, Palau, Nauru, Maldives and Africa.  People who will perish or be seriously decimated from the rising of ocean levels consequent to global warming.  Does  Canada really care for these people or only care for them after they have become Canadian citizens, not caring for them otherwise?

 

Sir, you recently returned from a less than successful tour of China.  The Chinese leadership treated you like a naughty schoolboy.  Upon your return in typical school boyish fashion you retaliated saying something to the effect human rights trumps trade.  Were you serious?  Does human rights mean so much to you while the lives of the peoples of the nations named above mean nothing ?

 

At COP15 China turns out to be a more serious and mature country than Canada.  I am ashamed of where you have led us to.

 

Sir, let's say you are successful in thwarting the goals of the Copenhagen Climate Summit. Let's say Palau, Nauru and Maldives are wiped off the earth.  Will that stop climate change?  No, they are not the polluters - we are - and climate change will continue until we will be decimated as well.  Do you and your government recognize that?

Comments

[The Office of the Prime Minister]

On behalf of the Right Honourable Stephen Harper, I would like to thank you for your e-mail, in which you raised an issue that falls within the portfolio of the Honourable Jim Prentice, Minister of the Environment.

Please be assured that the statements you made have been carefully reviewed. I have taken the liberty of forwarding your e-mail to Minister Prentice, so that he too may be made aware of your comments. I am certain that the Minister will give your views every consideration. For more information on the Government's initiatives, you may wish to visit the Prime Minister's Web site, at www.pm.gc.ca.

L.A. Lavell
Executive Correspondence Officer
for the Prime Minister's Office
Agent de correspondance
de la haute direction
pour le Cabinet du Premier ministre