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“The Conservatives’ new environmental platform is a ‘complete and total fraud’ that is ‘designed to mislead the Canadian people,’ former U.S. vice-president Al Gore said Saturday. The noted environmentalist was presenting his Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth in Toronto at a consumer environmental show, with Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty and environmentalist David Suzuki in attendance. Mr. Gore praised Mr. Suzuki for confronting Environment Minister John Baird on Friday, saying he saw the two exchange words on TV. … The Conservative government strategy focuses on reducing greenhouse gas emissions and improving air quality. But the plan failed to spell out precisely what many of its regulations will look like. ‘In my opinion, it is a complete and total fraud,’ Mr. Gore said. ‘It is designed to mislead the Canadian people.’ Mr. Gore said said he was surprised to see that the Tory plan employs the concept of ‘intensity reduction,’ which he said is a poll-tested phrase developed in Houston by the so-called think tanks financed by Exxon Mobil and some other large polluters.” (04/30/07)