After a long period attempting to reduce our household footprint I came to the conclusion that political activity is more important than individual action. Since then I have been on a search for a party which might be able to accomplish. The Harper (Conservative) government is not only not doing anything constructive about climate change but it is actively blocking effective international action as demonstrated by its withdrawal from the Kyoto Protocol. Under the current leadership, the Conservative Party is a lost cause.
They prorogued parliament to avoid answering questions about the treatment of Afghani prisoners and then they were found in contempt of parliament for refusing to hand over the documents.
Around the date of the recent federal election Statistics Canada published the 2011 Census. This has been controversial because the Harper government went over the head of the Director of Stats Canada to make the Long Form Census voluntary.
