This morning, I got to the conference centre around 8AM in order to attend the daily meeting between NGOs and Canada’s lead negotiator, Michael Martin. I didn’t gain a lot of information from the meeting … that guy is made of pure Teflon. Any attempt to get a Canadian quote about a specific issue from him is consistently answered with references that this is a global exercise: First, the United States needs to decide and emerging economies also need to pull their weight in reducing emissions … Canada as a laggard essentially!