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Forget the doomsayers

Stephen Harper trod a fine line of pragmatism on climate change

14 November 2015

9:00 AM

14 November 2015

9:00 AM

The removal of Stephen Harper as Canada’s Prime Minister in favour of Justin Trudeau has been claimed by green evangelists as an emphatic repudiation of Harper’s ‘inaction’ on climate change.

Wrapped in youthful idealism and a seasoned practitioner of soaring rhetoric, Trudeau is by appearances the antithesis of his sometimes dour, often dreary predecessor.

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