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By Andrew Mayeda and Laura Stone, The Ottawa Citizen December 8, 2010
As Canada prepares to make its case at a global climate-change summit in Mexico, a parliamentary watchdog is slamming the Harper government for failing to show leadership on environmental issues.
In an audit tabled Tuesday in the House of Commons, the commissioner of the environment and sustainable development said the government isn’t taking action on combating climate change at home.
“These are serious findings,” said commissioner Scott Vaughan. “We’ve noted to Parliament a number of important deficiencies.”
In particular, Vaughan blasted the government for failing to develop a federal strategy for adapting to the impact of climate change.
Vaughan warned the potential climate-change impacts on Canada range from severe weather events in Atlantic Canada to a prolonged drought costing billions of dollars in the Prairies, damage to the country’s boreal forests from pests and forest fires, and the thawing of permafrost in the Arctic.
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