Midwest pact sought on climate change

Ontario, Manitoba and maybe Saskachewan might want to see what's doing.

Got in the wrong place.

I am well aware that Canada is a sovereign nation and can tell the U.S. to take a hike. I with that the Canadian government did it more.

However, as I'm sure you know, there is a Great Lakes Compact among the states and provinces surrounding the Great Lakes. Ontario and Quebec are members, as are Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York. I'm not sure about Vermont.

These states and provinces work together to help keep the Lakes as healthy as possible, and will be instrumental in keeping the pipelines to dry areas out of the Lakes.

I see absolutely no reason why cooperation and consultation on global warming among these states and provinces should not happen. Most are in the same airshed, I think. The U.S. midwest group includes all the above-mentioned states except Pennsylvania and New York. I would argue that the western parts of both those states rightfully belong to the midwest and should be there, too.

Getting all the governments in the region to talk about global warming is a good thing to me, and I hope that invitations are extended across the U.S.-Canadian border both ways in the future.