Last semester, our class was asked to review national sustainable development strategies in Europe. This piqued my interest. I had known about the departmental sustainable development strategies (e.g. the one at Natural Resources Canada), but was not sure if there had been a Canadian one. There hadn't been one developed on a national level, but Bill C-474, the Federal Sustainable Development Act, passed the House of Commons on June 13, 2008. I was glad to see that all MPs in Canada who were present at Second Reading (in February 2008) voted for the Federal Sustainable Development Act - except Bradley Trost of Saskatoon-Humboldt, who voted against even all other Conservative MPs. I sent Mr. Trost the following message about this, and encourage you to do the same.
If you do email him, include your address; he is more likely to respond to you directly if you do so.
Dear Mr. Trost,
I was recently asked to study National Sustainable Development Strategies in Europe. Piqued by this request, I decided to analyse Canada's progress on developing a National Sustainable Development Strategy. I discovered that Bill C-474, "An Act to require the development and implementation of a Federal Sustainable Development Strategy and the development of goals and targets with respect to sustainable development in Canada, and to make consequential amendments to another Act", was passed on June 13, 2008. I was pleased to find out that all Members of Parliament had voted in favour of this act, save yourself. I am writing this message to ask for an explanation as to why you voted against this Act. Could you please provide your reasoning behind this decision?
Thank you very much.
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