KAMPALA, Uganda - Stephen Harper concluded a Commonwealth summit Sunday by bluntly describing the Kyoto accord as a mistake the world must never repeat.

The prime minister characterized the landmark climate change deal as a flawed document and served notice that Canada will not support any new international treaty that carries its fatal flaw...

Harper's remarks on Kyoto offer the latest in a series of public stances he has taken on the treaty, which demands six per cent emissions cuts below 1990 levels by 2012.

Five years ago he described it as a money-sucking socialist scheme and ridiculed the science of global warming when the previous Liberal government ratified the treaty...

Some foreign diplomats were so disgusted that they sought out Canadian journalists to tell them what their country was doing behind closed doors.

One called the Harper approach a perfect recipe for making sure nothing happens.

Canada was among the only countries to oppose a resolution that had called on developed countries to meet binding targets, without making any reference to developing ones like India.

The other major holdout, Australia's government led by John Howard, was turfed from office in an election during the summit.

Howard's successor, Kevin Rudd, has promised to sign the Kyoto accord immediately upon taking office. (full article)

Let's do like Australia and oust our current government for one that will take this critical issue more seriously, and not keep towing the United States Republican party line.