Different lobby groups and opposition parties have urged the government to move quickly to meet the Kyoto Protocol target, it is reported in Ottawa Thursday.
According to a report of the English newspaper the Globe and Mail, the government was flooded with advice from lobby groups and got a rough ride from opposition parties in the House of Commons on Wednesday.
Greenpeace activists demonstrated on Parliament Hill while other groups took a more sedate but no less activist approach.
"Keeping Canada's Kyoto promise will reach every corner of our society and will require bold moves on the part of the government, " Canadian Labour Congress executive vice-president Marie Clarke told reporters.
Phil Fontaine, chief of the Assembly of First Nations pointed out that "almost 80 percent" of his people reside in the boreal forest, where climate change can have "enormous impacts."
Canada agreed to particularly steep Kyoto conditions, promising to reduce the nation's emissions to 6 percent below 1990 levels. This target is supposed to be reached by 2008 and maintained through the next four years.
Canada ratified the agreement in 2002 but Environment Minister Stphane Dion said that the government does not have a firm plan to meet the targets and that it will be "several more weeks" before anything is ready.
The government was knocked back and forth Wednesday in the parliament as all opposition parties challenged the its Kyoto position.