Canadian Christians must resist earth degradation. (Editorial).

Give Canadians a bit of moral leadership and they respond in spades.

That was the hope-filled conclusion one could come to last week when the Prime Minister's Office was deluged with positive responses to his television interview that was aired on Sept. 11 in the CBC documentary "Untold Stories: Canada on Sept. 11."

In this program, Jean Chretien said that the greed and the endless desire of the western world helped to plant the seeds of hatred and resentment underlying the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and that the growing gap between the rich and the poor was exacerbating feelings of anger, hopelessness and antipathy.

"I think the Western world is …