Take the recent row over the Kyoto accord on cutting the world's carbon dioxide output.
Canada is the only country to repudiate the Kyoto Accord.
Finally, resistance to the Kyoto accord on global warming is cheap politicking, not leadership.
Nor was there reason to be surprised when he turned his back on the Kyoto accord, the international treaty on global warming.
One of his favorite gripes about the Kyoto accord is that big developing countries like China are not covered.
It has reduced emissions below the levels of 1990, the benchmark for the Kyoto accord, while booming economically.
What can we do to comply with the Kyoto Accord and solve the problem of climatic change?
Not only has he broken with many oil executives to embrace the Kyoto environmental accords, but he is taking on political corruption.
It is one of the few energy companies in Canada to publicly support the Kyoto Accord.
This led to the 1997 Kyoto Accord, with the plan to cap greenhouse-gas emissions.