http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2006/05/05/1566270-cp.htmlAl Gore says Canadians should hold politicians accountable on environment
TORONTO (CP) - Former U.S. vice-president Al Gore says Canada's new Conservative government was elected on issues that have nothing to do with global warming and now it is pretending to have a mandate to abandon the country's historical commitment to the environment.
"Each of us, as citizens, either in the U.S. or Canada, have a responsibility to hold our leaders accountable, keep their feet to the fire, yes, or to the solar cooker or whatever," he said Friday during a visit to Toronto to promote his new film, An Inconvenient Truth.
The documentary, in which Gore serves as narrator, warns that mankind has about 10 years to act on the impact of greenhouse gases or else the planet faces an environmental catastrophe. It opens in theatres June 2.
Although he has insisted it is not a political film, that the issue is above politics, the man who narrowly lost the U.S. presidential election to George W. Bush in 2000 seemed to slide into a political stance while discussing it.