Lindsey Graham is not your typical South Carolina senator. He thinks global warming is real – hardly a unanimous stand among Republicans – and he wants Canada to join him in his efforts to put in place a North American green economic strategy.
“Be our partner. You've got the same goal we do: You want to pass on a cleaner environment to future generations of Canadians and you want to make better business doing so,” said the second-term senator, whose position earned him a censure this month from the Charleston County Republican Party. “We ought to sit down with our Canadian allies and friends and work together on similar standards in terms of emissions
collaborate on how we can develop clean coal and carbon sequestration.”
And do it, Mr. Graham warns, before China eats our lunch. “China is beginning to play large in the green economy and we need to work together with our Canadian neighbours so we don't lose market share,” he said in an interview with The Globe and Mail.
Collaboration is crucial, too, if Canada is to avoid being side-swiped by U.S. tariffs on imports from countries with weaker emissions controls. The so-called Waxman-Markey climate change bill that was narrowly adopted by the House of Representatives in June authorizes “border measures” on such imports.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/lindsey-graham-extends-a-green-hand-to-canada/article1373340/
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