Whether the process proves to be Kyoto or something else, let's acknowledge the urgency of global warming.

And look, I was a big, brassy guy who won and won big. I did what I wanted.

Nobody has achievements like this ... you cannot name a Canadian prime minister who has done as many significant things as I did, because there are none.

We decided that the environment was an integral part of our policies and the political thrust of our government. We gave it the priority and we sustained it with the money required to make it happen.

I can see now a vision emerging how Canada is going to profit in the future from our Arctic resources without destroying the environment on which it is all based.

Whether the process proves to be Kyoto or something else, let's acknowledge the urgency of global warming.

Once you articulate an agenda, you have to follow it.