Second in a series on the politics of oil and Canada's climate change goals.

New Environment Minister Peter Kent has a big problem. For five years, the Conservative mantra on climate change has been that Canada must harmonize our targets and programs with the U.S.. That was an easy cop out, as long as the Americans were doing what Harper's government was doing -- nothing. It's now show time for the new Minister and the Harper government, because the Americans are at last doing something.