Federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says a tweet from her official departmental account praising Syria for joining the Paris climate agreement was "completely unacceptable" and she takes responsibility. "The tweet was completely unacceptable. Look, I'm a human rights lawyer I know more than anyone that the murderous Assad regime and the actions that they're committing, the atrocities against their own people, are completely unacceptable," she said. "I can assure everyone I will not be meeting with Syria at the Bonn climate talks that I'm going to next week." pic.twitter.com/bMjC0psYRE — @jkenneyOn Wednesday, Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer called the Syria tweet "unfortunate."

Source: CBC News November 08, 2017 11:26 UTC