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Peter Kent Environment Minister

May: Tories Sabotage Climate Talks

CBC | Posted 01.29.2013 | Canada Politics

When it comes to progress on climate change negotiations, the best thing for Canada to do is to stay home and stop sabotaging the process, says the le...

'Climate Change Is A Very Real And Present Danger '

CBC | Posted 01.19.2013 | Canada Politics

Federal Environment Minister Peter Kent thinks recent extreme weather events are forcing politicians in both Canada and the U.S. to focus on the issue...

An Open Letter to the Environment Minister

David Suzuki | Posted 08.18.2012 | Canada Politics
David Suzuki

I’'m writing to thank you and the government for the decision to make the Rouge Valley a national park. But, I am still shocked each time I hear you on radio or television –justifying what you are doing or not doing on the basis of the economic consequences. That’'s the Finance Minister'’s job. Yours is to protect the environment.

Sunday Roundup: Who Is Peter Kent?

Danielle Crittenden | Posted 04.26.2012 | Canada
Danielle Crittenden

It's not often you get an environment minister sitting down with a bunch of reporters and editorial staff to a no-holds-barred question-and-answer session, let alone a minister who has become as controversial as Peter Kent.

Yet that's what happened on Thursday at HuffPost, as we initiated our series of monthly lunches with Very Important People You Need to Hear From. When we informed the minister going in that he was our guinea pig, he wondered aloud if he was not in fact our sacrificial lamb? Not quite.