Bill C-288, An Act to ensure Canada meets its global climate change obligations under the Kyoto Protocol, passed third reading in the House of Commons last night.

The vote was along party lines — with Conservatives voting nay and every other party voting yea. Prime Minister Harper was absent for the vote.

The chief paragraph from the act — “

5. (1) Within 60 days after this Act comes into force and not later than May 31 of every year thereafter until 2013, the [Government] shall prepare a Climate Change Plan . . .
The bill is now off to the Senate where it must go through three readings and then we will learn when the 60 day clock starts and whether or not the Government will pay any heed to the act.
Mark Warawa, the Conservative MP from Langley who is also the Parliamentary Secretary to to the Minister of the Environment, calls this a “mischief bill.”