Abdul Alhazred wrote:Proposal to exclude Canada from the Commonwealth
Official site of United Nations Climate Conference
In the past, the Commonwealth has suspended several countries for human rights reasons. Now, campaigners, politicians and scientists have proposed suspending Canada because of its climate policy.
This weekend's summit of Commonwealth leaders beginning in Trinidad is the last major international gathering before the Copenhagen climate change conference in December. Here too, climate change will be on top of the agenda.
The Commonwealth’s 53 members include not only developed countries like Britain, Australia and Canada, but also emerging economies like India and South Africa as well as poor developing states comprising some of the world’s most vulnerable to global warming, like the Maldives and Bangladesh.
In the past, the Commonwealth has suspended Pakistan, Zimbabwe, Nigeria and South Africa for electoral or human rights reasons. Now, The World Development Movement, the Polaris Institute in Canada and Greenpeace have called for Canada to be suspended from the Commonwealth over its climate change policies, the Guardian reports.
"Countries that fail to help (tackle global warming) should be suspended from membership, as are those that breach human rights," says Clare Short, the former International Development Secretary according to the Guardian.
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Canada must be punished for destroying the planet!
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Oh. This isn't about Celine Dion 
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Re: Canada must be punished for destroying the planet!
Hell, if I were from Canada I'd push for global warming too. It's fucking cold there!
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Animavore wrote:Oh. This isn't about Celine Dion
Oh yeah ... booting them out of the Commonwealth. That will really put the frighteners up the Canadians.
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Have they ever apologized for Bryan Adams??Animavore wrote:Oh. This isn't about Celine Dion
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No apology would suffice for that outrage.FBM wrote:Have they ever apologized for Bryan Adams??Animavore wrote:Oh. This isn't about Celine Dion
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Right you are. Start the bombing.klr wrote:No apology would suffice for that outrage.FBM wrote:Have they ever apologized for Bryan Adams??Animavore wrote:Oh. This isn't about Celine Dion
"A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it." ~ H. L. Mencken
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"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
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