WHEREAS WE DON'T EVEN PRETEND:

Tories will neither kill nor live up to Kyoto (BILL CURRY, 4/07/06, Globe and Mail)

The Conservative government will not pull out of the international Kyoto agreement on climate change even though it has no intention of meeting the deal's targets.

The Tories have criticized the Kyoto Protocol for years, and during the election said they would replace Liberal spending on the environment with a "made-in-Canada" solution that would produce concrete reductions in emissions. The word "Kyoto" does not appear in the party's environmental platform.