With the environment supposedly becoming a 'warmer' potato, you would think that our government would by now have a clear, green directive to offer Canadians.

On May 18, 2009, The Hill Times reported that the Environment Commissioner Scott Vaughan said, "The Conservatives have been in power for more than three years, and still don't have a strong, transparent environment plan."

The Liberals, after their disastrous "Green Shift" offered up during the last election, say nothing on their website about what their environment policy has morphed into. The Conservatives and NDP are committed to cap-and-trade schemes, while the Greens are still gambling that Canadians will accept a carbon tax. All policies are driven by the dire predictions about the future of the planet due to man-made global warming.

Sadly, as more and more scientists openly dispute that greenhouse gases are a problem, more and more policy makers seem deeply committed to battling the so-called "dangerous pollutants." Canadian citizens should be genuinely concerned by this disconnect between science and policy. If science isn't driving the policy, then what is?

It seems clear that the nations of the globe are hurtling toward global socialism. Everywhere we have governments anteing up big state-ist solutions to imagined problems and problems created by government, as they work feverishly to build the size, scope, and reach of government.

So will these cap-and-trade schemes make us better as a nation? Well, not according to a January 2007 article in the National Post, "Rather than proving its effectiveness, the trading system has pushed electricity prices even higher while energy-intensive companies are forced to close down, cut jobs, or pass on the costs to consumers." Read: more government bureaucracy, fewer jobs, and less of your hard earned wages in your pocket to use as you like. And the benefit to the environment? Nil.

Yet, earlier this year, Prime Minister Harper and US President Obama agreed to commit to such a plan. Why?

Well, most people know that in 2007, the United Nations International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) made spectacular headlines claiming that there was consensus amongst scientists that the world was catastrophically warming. The IPCC claimed that 2,500 scientists had signed the report. But fewer people know that in fact, it was primarily a panel of politicians; the actual number of scientists was 51. And since then we have learned that many of those scientists actually dispute the claims of the report, with some threatening to sue to have their names removed.

So is there a consensus? No! Today there are more than 32,000 scientists that openly dispute the claims of anthropogenic, or man-made, global warming, over 9,000 of them with PhDs. All of them have one thing in common: they are concerned that science is being abused for political reasons.

So what should our Canadian government do about this issue? A CHP government would focus on pollution that affects health and well-being; there are many pollutants that do affect the quality of air, land and water. The nitrous-oxides, the sulphur dioxides, the thousands of chemicals that we pour into our environment year after year are untested and their effects on human life and animal life are unknown. These must be monitored and regulated.

CHP Canada won't bow to pressure, or be conned by bad science to make even worse public policy decisions. We won't cripple the economy, or you and your family, by taxing everything with a carbon tax that will enrich government coffers but do nothing for the environment. And, we won't adopt a cap-and-trade scheme which will significantly damage our economy through punishing penalties for fossil fuel consumption, increasing the price of everything you buy.

Right now the reliance on renewable energy is hotly debated. For instance it turns out that corn ethanol uses more energy to produce than the fuel it replaces. Diverting grains for fuel is thought to drive the price of food commodities dangerously high for the world's poor. Nuclear energy is cleaner, and has made some great strides with regard to storing fuel, but there are still hazards to be considered.

These are exciting times! Canadians have the creativity to be world leaders in energy technology. The CHP supports research and development, but we must resist untimely and unwise decisions that would have a negative impact on the welfare of Canadians. You want your government to very carefully study these issues and their response to be wise and balanced.

You want to protect our environment, and so does the CHP, but you don't want to be conned, and the simple inconvenient truth is that you have been lied to with unrealistic doomsday scenarios. The CHP promises an end to government policy driven by propaganda-and real control of real pollution for a healthier tomorrow for all Canadians.

Better solutions begin with the CHP.