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The guiding principle behind the Harper government's climate change policy is to ensure comparable (though not necessarily identical) efforts with the United States, based on the assessment that "doing more" than the US will cause Canada economic pain for negligible environmental gain, while "doing less" would be environmentally irresponsible and raise the spectre of new American (and European) trade barriers
The basic principle underpinning Canada's climate change policy is to pursue comparable efforts with the United States, through identical greenhouse gas reduction targets, harmonized performance, product and technical standards, compatible regulatory regimes, a common carbon price and complementary border adjustment measures vis-à-vis imports from third countries
