Demand more from Harper! Climate change before donuts

This post first appeared on the blog The Heat Beat for Governance Village.

You’ve no doubt heard the news; Harper is planning to do absolutely nothing at Copenhagen.   In fact, our illustrious PM will not attend the conference at all!  And really, why bother.  Mr. Harper is an important man.  He is far too busy jet setting around the world on important diplomatic business, like opening donut shops.  Far too busy to make an appearance at what is certainly the most highly publicized international negotiation of the last decade.  Never mind the fact that the vast majority of us Canucks have demanded action on climate change again and again and again.

Perhaps you’ve noticed a change in the tone of my posts this week.  To be frank, I’m irked. (Perhaps irked is an understatement.)  But I’ve rallied from the last post, and I’m ready for action.  And I’m in enlisting your help.  If you’re as fed up with the Conservative government’s position on climate change as I am, here’s an opportunity to do something.

It seems ol’ Stevie boy needs a friendly reminder on just exactly what his job is (that being, to represent you and me!)  What better way to remind him, than an e-card from our federal government, designed specifically to remind someone you know that the fight against climate change “rests in your hands.”   This Magazine has an excellent post up from their environmental series Stop Everything. Read it.  Then send Mr. Harper a friendly reminder on who he is in office to serve (that’s you; the people!)  Send Stephen Harper an e-card at pm@pm.gc.ca, and tell our Prime Minister to get his donut-lovin-butt on the next plane to Copenhagen!