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Another day, another Minister of the Environment, it seems.  On Tuesday, Harper's mini-shuffle installed Peter Kent, a former journalist with the CBC and Conservative MP from Thornhill to the post.  What could embody the lack of leadership on the climate any more clearly than the fact that Kent is the fifth to hold the position in five years?

Kent's appointement comes at a time when Canada's reputation on fighting climate change is in the toilet. Ottawa's watered-down leadership on the environment, well, stinks.  Already commentators and opposition leaders are openly concerned that Kent will do little more than his predecessors. Well, unless you count political spin as action.