Copps Still Angry, Bitter

Although she’s been out of politics since the 2004 election, Sheila Copps has not mellowed out one little bit. And it seems as though she hasn’t warmed up any to the guy that gave her that last big push out the window.

During a December 14 interview on CPAC, Copps claimed that Paul Martin, as well as his top henchmen Anne McLellan and Ralph Goodale were dead set against Kyoto:

“I remember very well when (Chretien) actually endorsed Kyoto, he called me before he went to South Africa because he was getting tremendous push back from the bureaucracy, the department of finance, the former minister of finance (Martin) and all of those attached to the natural resources … including Mr. Goodale and Anne McLellan. (They) were viciously against Kyoto.”

And, she says, the rift within the party created some greenhouse gasses of its own:

“We burned thousands of pounds of paper with briefing notes from the department of Natural Resources and the Department of Finance showing us why we could do nothing because it was an economic disaster.”

Copps wonders how Martin can go to Washington to criticize the Americans on Kyoto when our own record on greenhouse gasses is, in Copps’ opinion, “Abysmal.�

If this were coming from somebody else, it would probably be a pretty damning indictment of Paul Martin’s sincerity when it comes to environmental issues. But from Sheila Copps, it just sounds more like the prom date that still hasn’t forgiven him for puking on her dress and leaving with her best friend.