As economic policy, the Kyoto Accord is a disaster. As environmental policy it is a fraud.
~ Stephen Harper (born: 1959-04-30 age: 50) anti-environmental Prime Minister of Canada, Address at the Ottawa Leader’s Dinner, 2002-11-20

Harper is fixated on the costs of implementing Kyoto, estimated as high as 1% of GDP. However, he refuses to consider the costs of not implementing Kyoto which the famous economist Nicholas Stern estimated at 5 to 20% of GDP. Harper also refuses to consider the economic benefits of implementing Kyoto in energy saving, and the benefits of marketing Canadian green technology to other countries.