Under the UN Convention, developed countries are required to report
their greenhouse gas emissions every year. They only account, however,
for emissions physically occurring within their national boundaries.

This means that Canada does not count more
than 900 million tonnes of carbon dioxide that comes from others burning
our fossil fuel exports each year. This amount far exceeds our own
territorial emissions that are just over 700 million tonnes of CO2
equivalents.

Canada completely washes its hands of any
responsibility for the greenhouse gas emissions that result from our
massive fossil fuel exports. Yet, we know full well that the impacts of
carbon emissions are shared globally. To put it crudely: not only are we
screwing future generations ourselves, we are aiding and abetting other
countries in doing so too.