Ban Ki Moon is over the moon with Canada!

I live in the small town of Wakefield where one of our most famous, Nobel Prime Ministers, Lester Pearson resides in eternity. This man made Canadians proud by providing leadership during the Suez canal crisis, and by backing up the threat of war with peacekeeping. Those were heady glory days for Canada, where we really made a difference in the world.

Last night I watched as the UN Secretary General, Ban KI Moon spoke with CBC's Peter Mansbridge about Canada's poor record on climate change. Make no mistake, after "winning" many fossil awards and being regarded as a global laggard when it comes to climate change action, our current leadership still refuses to be part of the real global politic when it comes to consensus on the issue of climate change.

Gone are the days when the world needs more Canada. Relatively speaking, Canada is a rich nation that is giving the finger to most other nations trying to do the responsible thing when it comes to addressing one of the biggest threats to our way of life, climate change.

Now that the US and China are on board, our current government still refuses to lift a finger. Our government expects kudos for giving $300 million to the Green Climate Fund but this is thinly disguised hypocrisy after our Canadian International Development Agency has been gutted in its recent overhaul to ignore the plight of the extreme poor of the world by bending over backwards to support the corporate  extractive mining interests.

Nothing I see coming from our government surprises me anymore, I have become numb. I feel ashamed to be a Canadian these days but I have not given up on the good people who make up this great nation. Like many, I am counting the days when an election comes and the people speak in unison to correct this injustice and bring in a government that actually cares about this planet we call home.