Canadian Politics Today

Actually scientific evidence shows that stepping away from fossil fuels will help save this country and the world.

It will do nothing to reduce the global demand for oil.  It ain't going to do jack all if the US keeps pumping out GHG.  If the big emitters were cutting down drastically on GHG and we weren't and were lagging behind i'd totally agree with you.  But as small actors we shouldn't be global leaders in this when big actors aren't following suit because being global leaders means crippling our economy for very little reduction in global GHG.

I want to stop climate change as much as the next person.  But you can't cripple our major economic industry when the rest of the world keeps burning GHG.  What's the point???