As parliament nears its end for the current session, some reflection on the most recent sitting is in order. What better way to start than with the release of today’s EKOS Research poll where we find, yet again, stagnation in voting opinions across the country. The breakdown is as follows with the numbers in brackets indicating the percentage of support from the last federal election: Conservatives- 36.5% (37.65%), Liberals- 26.5% (26.6%), New Democratic Party- 16.7% (18.18%), The Bloc Quebecois (in Quebec only) – 39.8% (38.1%), The Green Party- 11.3% (6.78%) and undecided were in the 14.6% range. These figures show what many political analysts have known for some time, and that is that the electorate is not as volatile as it has been in the past. The biggest change is the rise in support for the Green Party, which jumped almost 6% from the time of the last election. It should be noted that the Green Party always tends to garner more support in a non-election year than it does during an election. The NDP’s numbers are down a bit too, but are actually trending upwards in recent months as a result of their stance on the Harmonized Sales Tax.  All the other numbers are relatively unchanged.  So what does this mean in real terms?
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In what will surely become a political issue, at least for the Green Party of Canada, scientists now report that Canadian forests – the “lungs of the planet” – have become carbon dioxide emitters rather than sequestering this greenhouse gas.

These 1.2 million square miles of greenery gained their fame, and their name, by covering seven percent of the world’s surface and absorbing phenomenal quantities of carbon dioxide, whose atmospheric rise since the industrial revolution is believed to be causing climate change, also known as global warming.

With two cold winters in a row, the global warming camp is currently facing serious opposition. In spite of that, 66 percent of Canadians still feel climate change is a serious and growing threat to the habitability of the earth in general, and their beautiful country in particular.
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