OSLO — Canada will be probed on suspicion of violating rules for registering greenhouse gases that are the mainstay of a UN-led fight against global warming, official documents show.

Ottawa could be suspended from rights to trade carbon dioxide if found to be in breach of the rules by the enforcement branch of the UN’s Kyoto Protocol. Greece was suspended last month, the first nation to face such a sanction under Kyoto.

Just so we’re clear. Canada is going to be punished for not meeting targets we no longer really care about meeting. And the punishment?

Canada won’t be allowed to buy credits – something we have no intention of doing – to meet a target we have no intention of meeting.