Environmental Policy in Quebec: Unrest on the Horizon

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Jean Charest's minority Liberal government boasts that Quebec will reach the goals set out in the Kyoto Agreement, and this despite Harper's shameful refusal to add Canada's signature to it. Yet, it is his record on environmental issues since the beginning of his term in office that has been the most damaging to his government's credibility. There was the Suroit natural-gas-fuelled electric power-plant project, which he was forced to renounce due to widespread public outcry--and, more recently, his push to sell off Mount Orford, a vast and important national park specifically donated to the province for public use.

Wind energy, only recently developed in the eastern part of …