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12/19/2002 Archived Entry: "PM Kyoto based on 'gut feeling'"

HE DOOMED CANADA BASED ON A 'GUT FEELING'?: The Ottawa Citizen, rapidly becoming my favourite Canadian newspaper based on the number of my pieces they run (another in the next day or so), has an interview with Canadian Environment Minister David Anderson.

So why did Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien sign the Kyoto Accord? Intensive research which combed mountains of data, theories and predictions? Nope. A gut feeling.

"His critics, who frequently denounce this, fail to realize it is one of the signs of his genius that he doesn't want to know too much about certain things. He gets the right gut feeling. And he's got the antenna, which very few people have, the political antenna. He's right on this," said Anderson.

I'm flabbergasted. The leader of my country signed an accord which will have a significant economic impact -- to the point that businesses will close and many will lose their jobs -- on a gut feeling?

Chretien is right, the Kyoto Accord is the way of the future...but who's future?

Replies: 2 comments

As much as we love Goldwater, one has to acknowledge the deft way that LBJ played off of the "In your hearts you know he's right" with the response "In your guts you know he's nuts." Chretien's motto might be "Even in his guts he's nuts."

Posted by oj @ 12/20/2002 06:48 PM EST

That's what scares me...and I had dinner with the man once so I should at least have had a clue.

Posted by Steve Martinovich @ 12/21/2002 04:20 AM EST