I'm sure it's because Canadians don't care, right?

With the environment near the top of the public agenda this year, Prentice's door swung open the widest for lobbyists, with 136 face-to-face or telephone contacts reported in the year, the data show.

Isn’t that nice?  Harper’s government not only realizing that the environment is near the top of the public agenda, but our very own environment minister meeting with lobbyist as a result.

Let’s see how what Harper, through Prentice has in mind for our environmental future.

Of these contacts, the majority -- 81 of 136 -- were with lobbyists representing oil, gas or other energy companies, including EnCana, Suncor, Shell Canada and ConocoPhillips. Prentice met to discuss energy issues with Imperial Oil on 14 occasions, more than any other company or organization.

Over half of the meetings were with companies lobbying to develop more energy sources harmful to the environment?  Not good.  But let’s be fair and look at how many environmental lobbyist groups our, you know, environmental Minister met with.

In the same period, he took just two meetings with environmental group the David Suzuki Foundation and another two with the Pembina Institute.

Steve Harper: once more ignoring what Canadians really care about.