Canada Will Not Buy Pollution Rights

Canada will not use public money to buy carbon emission rights on an international market after failing to meet its targets to curb pollution under the Kyoto Protocol, Environment Minister Rona Ambrose said.

We will not use taxpayer money to play the emissions trading market, nor will we use taxpayer money to create an artificial market to buy and sell credits, Ambrose told a parliamentary committee on environment and sustainable development.

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But Canada will not back out of the Kyoto Protocol ratified by the previous Liberal administration, she said, despite repeated claims by the new Conservative government that Canada would not achieve its emissions reduction target.