Kyoto plan like 'lipstick on a pig'
From the National Post (Canada):

OTTAWA and EDMONTON - Provincial politicians and business leaders were more than skeptical yesterday toward Ottawa's updated Kyoto plan, slamming a strategy they say was cooked up secretly and sprung on them through the media.

"It's a clear breach of trust," Lorne Taylor, Alberta's Environment Minister, said, describing the plan as "lipstick on a pig."

"They're not working in collaboration with the provinces when they release to the press and the public without even discussing it [with the provinces]."

Federal officials, who spoke on background yesterday, said the new plan will limit the burden on large companies that are the main source of industrial greenhouse gases. It will also ask individual citizens to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by a tonne a year.

Canadians can forget about eating beans.

The federal officials said the plan would mean only a 0.4% decline in gross domestic product and by 2010 would cost about 60,000 jobs.

Such a deal! And of course, it won't make any appreciable difference in the amount of "greenhouse gases" in the atmosphere.