Here are some excerpts from a 2002 letter Stephen Harper sent to members of the Canadian Alliance denouncing the Kyoto accord on greenhouse gas emissions:
"We're gearing up for the biggest struggle our party has faced since you entrusted me with the (Alliance) leadership. I'm talking about the `battle of Kyoto' – our campaign to block the job-killing, economy-destroying Kyoto accord."
"(The accord is) based on tentative and contradictory scientific evidence about climate trends."
"It focuses on carbon dioxide, which is essential to life, rather than upon pollutants."
"Canada is the only country in the world required to make significant cuts in emissions. Third World countries are exempt, the Europeans get credit for shutting down inefficient Soviet-era industries, and no country in the Western hemisphere except Canada is signing."
"Implementing Kyoto will cripple the oil and gas industry, which is essential to the economies of Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia."
"As the effects trickle through other industries, workers and consumers everywhere in Canada will lose. There are no Canadian winners under the Kyoto accord. The only winners will be countries such as Russia, India, and China, from which Canada will have to buy `emissions credits.'"
"Kyoto is essentially a socialist scheme to suck money out of wealth-producing nations."
"On top of all this, Kyoto will not even reduce greenhouse gases. By encouraging transfer of industrial production to Third World countries where emissions standards are more relaxed, it will almost certainly increase emissions on a global scale."
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