"The leader of the NDP began this Parliament by saying that the number-one air quality concern of Canadians was smog. Now he says it's greenhouse gases," Harper said.
"We believe it's both, which is why the Clean Air Act covers both," he said.
"Now this government is determined to move ahead with a long-term plan to reduce emissions of both these gases, but if the NDP wants to sit down and discuss how we can do that better, I'm certainly willing to do that with them."
Layton said he hoped the prime minister is serious.
Mr. Layton, I can assure you that Stephen Harper is very serious. Believe it. However, I doubt that you are, yourself. I believe that you'd rather play partisan politics like an unhinged moonbat...
... like you did with Puppygate, just as you were getting into the Clean Air Act but, like a short-attention-span infant, dropped it to try to score cheap, cheating political points for your own gain...
... but please, Mr. Layton... prove me wrong about you. Go ahead. Don't talk about fancy documents like Kyoto that mean nothing in the real world. Talk about concrete measures being taken. If you say, "Kyoto or an election", then you will destroy your political capital. Canadians don't want to play any more liberal-left political games... they want results, not more hot air!
While you're at it... I'd strongly recommend you not align yourself with liberal-left extremists who slander the Prime Minister with picket signs depicting him as a devil just because he's liberating the tyrannized, human-rights-devoid Afghan people from the bloodthirsty, totally-intolerant Taliban. Otherwise, you could be deemed as supporting the Taliban, as has already happened, with your bizarre suggestion that we "sit down and talk" with these unchangeable monsters. No wonder folks derisively call you "Taliban Jack".
But I digress.
Go ahead and work with the government to quickly get serious, workable environmental legislation passed. Forget about the stupid piece of worthless paper called "Kyoto", which is dead, as a matter of fact, as it hasn't done a thing to even slow greenhouse gas emissions in the world.
Let's have a Canadian environmental plan that works, not some feel-good international exhibition of stupidity and delusional optimism.
Let's work together for Canada. Why not? Canadians want their elected representatives to work together and quit playing infantile politics!
If you do the right thing, just think of how bad the Liberals will look in contrast, with their unhinged demagoguery and brainlessly dogged determination to prevent Parliament (and Canada) from working and moving forward progressively.
If you do the right thing, you will deserve every swing vote you get coming to your party from the corrupt, unhinged Liebrano$$$, who don't deserve to ever again govern unless they shut down completely and restart from the ground up with a whole new constitution and real principles and policies based upon the original, classical liberalism they once may have had but of which they are now totally devoid. The LPC as it is currently constituted is actually effectively a criminal organization, once one examines all the damning concrete evidence against them and considers the fact that there are currently some three dozen criminal investigations into their past behavior in power.
So go ahead and demolish the Liberals' electoral chances, and you'll end up with more votes, will win more seats... and will have more influence than ever before. That's what's in it for you. Go for it, my good man Jack!
