Zac Goldsmith rants at 'uncivilised' Canada As a valued trading partner, member of the Commonwealth and long-standing ally, Canada is not a country it is advisable for British parliamentarians to go out of their way to offend. Still, Zac Goldsmith, the holier-than-thou Tory MP for Richmond Park who is noted for his stands on environmental issues, has rhetorically posed this question on a social networking site: "When did Canada become so uncivilised?" The sweeping generalisation was prompted by the son of the late billionaire Sir James Goldsmith taking exception to Alberta's policy of culling adult and baby wolves. Their numbers have been surging in recent years to the extent that they are posing a threat to the deer, elk and moose inhabiting the eastern slopes of the Rockies. This is not the first time that Goldsmith, who was on David Cameron's controversial A-list of parliamentary candidates and is tipped to join a future cabinet, has been critical of Canada. Earlier this year, the 37-year-old MP said it was a "disgrace" that Britain took Canada's side when it came to the country's practice of deriving oil from its tar sands which the European Commission is trying to classify as damaging to the environment. Goldsmith didn't approve, either, of Canada's fluoridation of its water. He says that, when the country eventually saw the error of its ways, tooth decay "actually decreased." Perhaps it's time for someone from the Foreign & Commonwealth Office to have a quiet word in his ear?