| | CBC - Canada Votes 2006 - Reality Check |
 | | That approach, however, ignores Canada's usual leadership role in the UN; also the fact that much of the rise in our greenhouse gas emissions over the past 15 years is because we have been extracting increasing amounts of oil and natural gas for export to the U.S., a process that is hugely energy intensive. |
 | | Complicating the Tory plan to step away from our Kyoto commitments is the fact that Canada is to head the UN Climate Secretariat for the next period, during which the signatories to Kyoto are to decide on targets for the second round, post-2012. |
 | | Insiders said Canada, which produces about two per cent of the world's greenhouse gases, took on such big obligations in the first round because the Clinton administration was looking to do the same and we were trying to help clinch U.S. involvement. |
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