The Climate Change Bill Re-introducing the Climate Change
Accountability Act, Bill C-311The science is now unequivocal:
unchecked greenhouse gas emissions will lead to catastrophe. We
face vanishing polar ice caps, drought, rising sea levels,
altered agriculture, massive deforestation, species extinctions,
virulent diseases, extreme weather events, and economic
hardship. Faced with conclusive evidence for years, successive
Prime Ministers promised that they would act—but didn’t. A new
level of political commitment is needed to prevent the threat of
worsening economic and health effects of climate pollution. Bill
C-311 ensures the government is accountable to Canadians on
climate change. The Bill, virtually unchanged from last
Parliament when it was introduced by Jack Layton as C-377,
passed through the House with support of a majority of Members
before reaching the floor of the Senate where it died due to the
2008 election. It was often called the “Kyoto Plus” Bill because
it picks up where the Kyoto Protocol