May 4
Gore’s Bad Manners
are being noted south of the border, too.
Gore flew over to Canada last week and loudly blasted the Canadian government for its rejection of the Kyoto Treaty as “a complete and total fraud.”Speaking at a Toronto screening of his movie “An Inconvenient Truth,” he announced that the Canadian government’s new, more realistic plan to reduce greenhouse gases “is designed to mislead the Canadian people.”
Not only did he offer an opinion of global warming, he offered an opinion about the Canadian government, too – as if his Oscar for his error-filled documentary had gone to his head and he suddenly confused himself with the ruler of the world.
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An outsider like Gore has no idea why Canadians elected the government he attacked. But in the Internet age that hasn’t stopped him from helping himself to all the privileges of political participation – without the responsibility.
Canada’s environment minister, John Baird, in fact said Gore didn’t seem to have read Canada’s climate plan at all.
If the media are any indication, Canadians were not impressed: Canadian editorials had titles like: “Time to Muffle Al Gore’s Exhaust Pipe.”
