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   And he's appealing to the provinces to bail him out on the numbers.  He wants   
   *their* specific goal targets and methods to bolster *his* government before   
   the other G7 member nations.   
      
   What a bloody loser.  What an inept, environmentally-disastrous government.  I   
   hope the provinces insist on presenting their own individual targets and   
   methods for meeting them.  Or appoint Kathleen Wynne their spokesperson.   
      
   Can you imagine what the figures will be like from Alberta - the most polluting   
   province in the country?  Those will be scratched, of course.   
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   PANAMA CITY — The Canadian Press - Sunday, Apr. 12 2015   
      
     Ottawa to announce carbon emissions targets before June’s G7 meeting,   
   Harper says   
      
   Stephen Harper says Canada will unveil its targets for greenhouse gas emissions   
   before the G7 meetings in June.   
      
   Harper’s remarks Saturday came after his government missed the March 31   
   target   
   date for countries to submit emissions reduction pledges ahead of December’s   
   United Nations climate summit in Paris.   
      
   Speaking to reporters in Panama where he attended a hemispheric summit, the   
   prime minister said Ottawa wanted to give the provinces a chance to have their   
   own conference to discuss their emission targets.   
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   Updated Sunday, April 12, 2015   
      
   Aglukkaq writes provincial counterparts, asks for better emissions numbers   
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   OTTAWA -- Having missed a March 31 deadline to submit greenhouse gas emissions   
   reduction targets to the United Nations, the Harper government is prodding the   
   provinces to come up with better numbers.   
      
   In letters sent to her provincial and territorial counterparts on Friday, and   
   released publicly on Sunday, Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq urged the   
   provinces to send more information to bolster reduction targets that Ottawa has   
   so far only estimated based on 2014 information.   
      
   Aglukkaq said the government wants to announce targets soon that it can present   
   Canada's contribution to the UN climate conference in December.   
      
     "This contribution is expected to be national in scope and reflect action by   
   all levels of government with quantifiable post-2020 emission reductions,"   
   Aglukkaq wrote in individual letters to the provinces.   
      
   At UN climate talks in Lima in December it was agreed that countries "ready to   
   do so" would formally file pledges on cutting greenhouse gas emissions with the   
   UN by the end of March.   
      
   Canada, along with Japan, Australia and China all failed to meet the deadline,   
   although a spokesman for Aglukkaq said it was never a firm date.   
      
   In Panama City at a hemispheric summit on the weekend, Prime Minister Stephen   
   Harper said Canada will unveil its targets for greenhouse gas emissions before   
   the G7 meetings in June.   
      
   But he said Ottawa wanted to see the outcome of provincial talks on emissions   
   first before unveiling national targets.   
      
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