Because doing nothing takes practice

Mr. Bramley (director of climate change at the Pembina Institute) said, however, that although Mr. Baird's term as environment minister was not as successful as he had hoped, he's happy that Mr. Baird was appointed the interim minister because he already knows the file.

And he sure knows how to implement harper’s agenda on climate change.  Make sure Canada does nothing and make sure Canada does what it can to slow international agreements.

So it really helps that Baird knows the file, because this may come up again -

The federal government raised the prospect that northern aboriginals might seek more money if countries signed a climate-change treaty in Copenhagen last year, new documents show.  Officials at Foreign Affairs flagged the issue in a memo to Canada's former climate-change envoy before a major United Nations conference in the Danish capital.

“There is a possible link between an agreement at Copenhagen on international funding for adaptation and an increased demand for funding by indigenous groups in the Arctic,” the document says.       

Have to know ahead of these tiresome summits what exactly is at risk for harper’s Canada.  Have to know what you want to block, after all.