Making food scarcity worse

Although ready since January, Health Canada's report Human Health in a Changing Climate was released on July 31st in the late afternoon with no fanfare. Very few papers mentioned key predictions of this report. Here are three.
- Canada's national temperature, which was increased by 1.2 Celsius degrees over the past 50 years, will continue to increase at a rate faster than in most other countries.
-The Arctic and central prairies will have the highest temperature increases leading to droughts in the prairies and food scarcity in the North.
- Residents of the North will be hit hard by food scarcity, natural hazards and increased exposure to the sun's UV rays. Knowing that, how do you like the idea that the federal government plans to spend $2.3 billion in subsidies to plants making ethanol from corn, wheat and soya? Already the world's grain stocks are down to 52 days! And don't count on cellulosic ethanol soon; the technology is just not ready for scale.
Had the federal Conservative and Liberal MPs and Senators read this report in January , would they have voted in favor of Bill C-33 which allows the government to mandate a certain average percentage of ethanol in our gasoline, diesel and heating fuel by 2010?
As an admirer of the American way, does Mr Harper know that from a QUARTER of all corn production in the States, enough ethanol can be made to replace only 3% of all american petroleum consumption?

Energy efficiency is definitely a better option.
Pamela Walden-Landry
Montreal, Que.