Renewable Energy: Are our leaders stopping the change?

Last night, as I combined homework with television, I watched a Fifth Estate episode on renewable energy, "The Gospel of Green". The program focused on Hermann Sheer, the man who has been leading Germany down its path to total reliance on renewable energy. It is a lengthy show, an hour long. I did link it above, and to find the section that really hit me begins at about 16 minutes. The issue in this section deals with Canada's efforts (or lack there-of) in advancements in renewable energy. It discusses Canada's extreme potential in resources related to renewable energy. Wind power is extremely feasible in Ontario and beyond. The large amount of agriculture in Canada makes production of bio fuels (power generated by animal wastes)extremely realistic. However, it is suggested that Canada and the Ontario government are reluctant to adopting renewable energy sources, seemingly due to their loss of control of the resource, in comparison to say nuclear plant energy. They argue that nuclear power is the way of the future, as it is carbon-emission free. However, nuclear power has a large array of its own risks, the most substantial being storing of nuclear waste after it exceeds use. Also, eventually every plant must retire, and then we have the added issue of what to do with these environments in the future. I am very disappointed that we are still in a position in Canada where we are unable to think ahead, and make decisions based on their future benefit, rather than their immediate benefit or level of control. It is very sad that the issue of global warming is considered a 'crisis', when the more I investigate the subject the more it seems we have everything we need to reverse it at our finger tips, and the government with industry leaders alike are the ones stopping it.
Keep watching,and the video turns to electric vehicles, and how they were on the rise in the USA, until General Motors (the producers of the EV1 electric car) changed their minds and returned to focusing on gas powered vehicles, where they were at the time making money. The electric cars we crushed and dumped in a desert in California. We live in a society that blatantly wastes money, pollutes the environment and works solely for the well being of industry! Today, the electric car is seeing a slow but promising comeback in Canada. What's stopping it? The Canadian Government. ZENN (Zero Emissions No Noise) vehicles are ready and waiting a change in regulation from Transport Canada so that they may hit the road. Not surprisingly, with the decline of gas vehicle sales, GM has re-introduced an electric model- The Volt. They are legal in the US. What are we waiting for here? Canada consumes the highest amount of energy per capita than any other country in the world. Despite the endless resources and opportunity, we are also very behind on the road to sustainability. However I believe we are fully capable of morphing into the same type of locally renewable settlements such as those Professor Dav Vilet mentionned in his lecture, given we are permitted!