Prime Minister Harper has laughed at the environment as an important issue for years. As this letter shows, he considers Kyoto as well as any real concern for environmental problems as some sort of socialist plot. Now, Canadians have decided the environment is their number one concern, and the new leader of the Liberal Party is a certified environmentalist. Harper is running TV ads, outside of any political election campaign, trying to smear the Liberal leader, Stephane Dion as a phony to the cause. He is using dirty tricks out of desperation, and it is my sincere expectation that the Canadian voters will see right through his shenanigans and throw these bums out in the next election. We won't even talk about Harper's social conservatism for the moment.