What, me worry?

Northwestern_lad and the Jurist are already on this but I have to get my two cents worth in. The Globe and Mail is reporting that the Climate Change Accountability Act, a collaborative effort of the three opposition parties that died on the order paper when Harper called that last election and has been re-introduced as a private member's bill by an NDP MP, will not be supported by the Liberals because, you know, things have changed. Here's the Liberal environmental critic:

In an interview, Mr. McGuinty said a lot has changed since the last Parliament. His list of new factors includes the election of Barack Obama as U.S. president, the change in Liberal leadership and the fact that his party was defeated in the last election after releasing a detailed environmental plan centered around a carbon tax.

"I think we've learned from that," he said.

He said Mr. Ignatieff will announce a new environmental policy in time, but that it won't be rushed simply because of the upcoming vote on Mr. Layton's bill, which is now sponsored by NDP MP Bruce Hyer.

I can't help but notice that missing from the list of things that have changed is a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions or a lessening of the urgency represented by catastrophic climate change. But as far as those whose policy is now to have no policy are concerned, there's really no rush. Apparently the same Liberals who signed us up for Kyoto in the first place and then sat on their hands doing nothing for over a decade are uninterested in being part of any effort to deal with the problem that doesn't have Product of the Liberal Party stamped on it.