Harper arrives in Australia

Canadian Press

September 6, 2007 at 3:03 AM EDT

SYDNEY — Prime Minister Stephen Harper has arrived in Australia for this weekend's meeting of Asia Pacific leaders.

Mr. Harper arrived in Sydney at mid-afternoon local time Thursday after a 26-hour flight from Ottawa.

The Prime Minister begins his formal agenda Friday, when he gives a speech on climate change and energy policy to a group of business leaders ahead of the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation forum.

U.S. President George W. Bush will also address the business gathering.

Climate change is one of the key themes for this year's meeting of the 21-member APEC organization, which includes the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitters in China, the United States and Russia.

Canadian officials have already indicated Canada is ready to join the AP-6, a climate change group that some environmental groups see as a rival to the UN-mandated Kyoto process for reducing greenhouse gases.

Canada has also been asked to join a U.S.-led nuclear partnership that could eventually see big uranium exporters — like Canada and Australia — be asked to dispose of spent nuclear waste.

After the weekend summit, Mr. Harper travels to Canberra where he will become the first Canadian prime minister to address the Australian parliament. His speech falls on the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States.

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Our commentary in the Globe and Mail

September 6, 2007

  1. You (Ottawa Mens Centre.com, from Ottawa, Canada) wrote: Harper and Howard have at least one thing in common. They both family court systems that are fundamentally flawed. Mr. Harper should ask Mr. Howard about Australia's legal presumption of equal parenting after separation. Mr Harper should also have a look at their child support guidelines that allow for differences in incomes and factor in the expenses incurred by non-custodial parents. In Canada, we have a corrupt feminist ridden political system that has burdened Canada with a presumption that men are second class citizens who should not be allowed near children. We have family court judges who have severe personality disorders that predispose them to horrifying flagrant abuses of Judicial Power. Mr. Harper, its time Canada legislated a presumption of equal parenting after separation and equitable child support guidelines instead of turning children into prizes to be won a sideshow called family court. http://www.OttawaMensCentre.com 613-797-3237
    • Posted 06/09/07 at 10:57 AM EDT