There is something wrong with Stephane Dion and his opposition party.

Here in Canada, we need to do more to protect the environment. Canada needs to protect its fresh water resources, prevent acid rain and provide clean energy for residential and industrial consumption. Surely the former Minister of the Environment would agree. Yet, surprisingly, he does not. Stephane Dion does not support environment initiatives. What's worse -- at every opportunity he attempts to prevent environment protection bills from being passed in parliament.

Stephane Dion, and his friends at CBC, have subscribed to the notion that the best way to take care of our environment, is to not take care of our environment at all, but to use our tax dollars to pay other countries to take care of their environment. A notion so philosophically obscure it truly takes a liberal to fully comprehend its design. In essence, Dion and his party desire not to protect the environment, not to provide a clean and healthy ecosystem for the next generation, but to provide social support for Russia.

That's right. Dion believes that Canada should engage in Kyoto Protocol green credit trading. Wherein, Canada would do nothing for the environment and subsequently spend billions of dollars on green credits -- from Russia. This fee, coupled with international fines imposed by the United Nations for failing to meet legal obligations. This plan is ludacris. Absolutely ludacris. Economists predict such a move would cripple the nations economy with thousands of Canadians losing their jobs, unprecedented increases in taxes and costs of living with record high unemployment across the country.

Why not just protect the environment at home?

Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the current US Administration have been cooperating to make a North American solution to climate change. An initiative that could see real environment policies, real action on the environment and real results. All without crippling taxes and job losses. How could anyone oppose this plan? How could any forward-thinking policy maker oppose real action, in favour of tax and grab measures?

If Canada agreed to the Kyoto Protocol, and did nothing for the environment at home as the opposition liberals have triumphed, what would Russia do with the billions of dollars we'd be giving them? Would they build more nuclear weapons? Would they transfer more weaponry to terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan? (Terrorists that regularly attack Canadian peace makers). Would the Russians use our money to make more AK 47 death rifles to be used against democracy-supporting Christians in Chechnya?

We just don't know what Russia would do with our money.

So why give it to them?