I would say it's pretty clear that Mr.Baird doesn't care about the 'optics' at all. The fact that he and his party are willing to stand up in front of the world and say "we're not going to do it if THEY don't have to" has cost Canada our image as a leader-by-example. I am deeply appalled and deeply ashamed of this government, and what it's doing to our role in the world.

This is terrible, we need to vote these idiots out of power asap. They are literally endangering my life, your life, the life of our families with their idiotic policies and this has to stop now!

Hi Eve,
As my mother would say: "there are none so deaf as those that don't want to hear". I am increasingly convinced that this government would wish that the issue of climate change went away. Unfortunately, it will not. I'm afraid Canada may be on the wrong side of history.

John

The critics of John Baird and the current Canadian Government border on pornographic misrepresentation of the facts.
Words without action are absolutely meaningless. Past governments have blindly committed to policies that they never had any intention of honoring. I would rather have a government that hesitates to commit until such time as it knows that the objectives are realistic and achievable.
Those people who percieve Canada as a global leader in environmental issues are dreaming in technicolour. Compared to many modern European nations, we have always lagged behind. Foreign-owned corporations will get away with as much as they can. Canadian corporations, including cities such as Montreal and Victoria have pumped raw sewage into the oceans for decades. Anyone who thinks that we have a proud history of environmental stewardship is full of ^(*!

Who really keeps secrets nowadays.

It is plain spite and a desire to control the domestic agenda that Baird and his advisors in the PMO thought of.

Check the other nations' media. Canada is ignored, except in statistical charts of great polluters of air (and water).
Canada is unimportant in the scheme of things.