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Earlier this afternoon, a Liberal back-bencher asked
Minister of the Environment Sheila Coops what was so
important about the Berlin Conference on Global Warming
that she would be heading the Canadian delegation
attending it next week.

The set-up question was clearly intended to provide the
Minister with an opportunity to announce some important
initiatives that the Canadian government intended to
take.

To her credit, the Minister tried to say something
profound. She said that projections indicated that by
2050, Prince Edward Island would be submerged under water
along with much of the BC lower mainland. 

The House erupted in an uproar. The Speaker had to stand
for several moments before order was restored and the
Minister announced that she was going to Berlin to solve
the problem of global warning.

The vignette tells us much about the environmental crisis
facing the planet. The members of the House appeared to
give no credence to either the Minister's claims nor to
the importance of her mission. For her part, the Minister
did not perform much better. If she now believes that one
whole province is about to separated from Canada, not by
referendum, but by nature, then it is time that she
announced a plan of action to deal with it. 

Don Francis