Conservatives keep departmental climate work under the radar

While individual departments are taking the issue seriously, lack of political leadership means they are working in silos.

By Carl Meyer

Published December 8, 2010

It is Dec. 2, and Gordon McBean is preparing for the first of two major conference calls on climate change.

The call is a meeting of the steering committee for the Harper government's newly-minted National Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction. That organization, a unique new approach to planning for potential national emergencies run by Public Safety Canada, was born in 2009, but only held its first meeting...

To view the rest of this article, please choose one of the following:

OPTION 1 Subscriber Login Forget your password?	Email Password
OPTION 2 Subscribe to Embassy	Subscribe to the print and electronic editions and get instant access to Embassy online.