The climate change extravaganza in Copenhagen was one of the most perplexing shows ever mounted in the Earth's sorry history.
Somehow, amid the screaming and garment-renting, Canada emerged as the arch-villain of the piece. Apparently, we of the peaceable kingdom are the Bad Thing hellbent on destroying this shiny blue orb everyone loves so much. Against us are ranged the angelic forces of Good -- led by a demented Robert Mugabe, that scoflaw from Sudan who slaughters black babies, a bunch of rabblerousers from Latin America and a handful of self-appointed leaders from countries too small to name.
The whole thing is so improbable that even the slowest among us has to stop and ask, Wassup with this?
Are we to believe that in the midst of the world's daily hurly-burly -- the clamour of Calcutta, the thrumb of Hanover, the clatter of oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico, the whir of innumerable factories in China and the shriek of chainsaws in Indonesia -- modest little Canada is the Evil that will lead the world over the climate change cliff?
Come on! Pull the other one!
With Copenhagen, surely the idiotic campaign against Canada has scraped bottom. Do you people out there really believe that our seal hunters threaten the Earth's equilibrium? That our lumberjacks are pilaging the planet? Clearcutting every last pristine wilderness? That our mining companies are engaged in a conspiracy of genocide against indigenous people everywhere? That our own Aboriginal people are exterminating wild species willynilly with their marginal fur-trapping? Is this what goes on in your fevered European brains?
Ridiculous.
So what is up with this?
What's with the Canada-bashing by all these murky and unelected NGOs? And why are all those supposedly responsible European governments lending support to this drivel? Not to mention all that U.S. money flooding in to support those murky and unelected NGOs.
Interesting, eh what?
If anyone has any answers, please let Rupert know.
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