We cats are in Canada for a short spell, and since the country is deep into the Stanley Cup playoffs, it's an interesting time to be here. Is there anything else happening in the True North besides hockey? Well, there's balancing the federal budget. Oh, and a harassment case against the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. (Nope, not Dudley Do-Right.)
But we cats think the only item on the Canadian agenda right now should be climate change, and nothing but climate change. Because we recently came across some pretty alarming news about what global warming will mean for this country if it isn't stopped in its tracks, like, yesterday: No glaciers, no permafrost, no polar bears, no maple syrup, no cranberries... shall we go on?
We cats don't understand why Tory Prime Minister Stephen Harper isn't in Washington every single month, getting into the faces of the Congressional Republicans who are standing in the way of US action on climate change. Because if something isn't done, come the turn of the next century there won't be any ice for the NHL to play on.
But — oh! We forgot. Harper is the Canadian equivalent of a Republican himself. We still think he has a hotline to Karl Rove — which makes us want to dump our dirty litter boxes over his head. And HISS.
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