Mr. Speaker, what puzzles me in the clear air act is that we are mixing up clean air with CO2 and greenhouse gases. There is some linkage, but I am sure this is a deliberate attempt by the Conservatives to fuzzy the air, or the water, if I can say that.
What I feel very disappointed about is, for example, when we moved to intensity based reductions, if we look at the oil sands, for example, with the quadrupling of production to 2015, that will still mean there will be an absolute increase, in fact a huge increase, in the production of CO2 out of the oil sands.
We hear a lot about ethanol. It might be good agricultural policy and it might help with cleaner air, but it certainly does not do anything for CO2 because it takes a high level of energy to convert the corn or the switchgrass to ethanol.
Does the parliamentary secretary have any insights as to why the Conservative government switched from CO2 to clean air? The two are not the same thing.