Canada is not doing this. The Liberal Party is doing it to Canada to appease the liberal/left/progressives who orchestrated their rise to power. The 'national climate deal' is the most major of the collisions that have been occurring between academic theory and common sense since the Liberals arrived in Ottawa. Like their counterparts in the US did, they are ignoring the issues that are of genuine concern to many Canadians and focusing on those that support progressive dogma. In their all-consuming quest to save us from ourselves, they have lost touch with the more tangible concerns of the electorate that are, inconveniently, at odds with their priorities. The Liberals are convinced that their agenda is unquestionable and anyone querying it's infallibility is of lesser intellect or, in some manner, morally inferior. With gathering urgency, they are forging the elements of a unilateral fiasco that will seriously damage the Canadian standard of living and result in their political defeat