Mr. Speaker, I do not want to blame my friend, the hon. Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of the Environment. I have not been able to get a straight answer from the Prime Minister or from the Minister of the Environment, and it is his unhappy task tonight to try to defend an indefensible record.
The math is clear. Just as the parliamentary secretary says that by 2020, emissions will be 734 megatonnes, the promise that was made by the Prime Minister was that they should be 607 megatonnes, a reduction against 2005 levels.
Instead, there has been no plan to deal with the oil sands sector. The government keeps telling us there is a sector-by-sector approach. We had to bring in regulations on transportation because our car market is shared with the United States. They were good regulations. I supported them.
The coal-fired regulations do not take effect until 2015, and they will not actually shut down any existing coal-fired power plants.
However, the oil sands sector, where the Prime Minister and successive ministers of the environment promised regulations, remains unregulated.
This is a record of inaction and missed targets. I still do not know if the administration regards Canada as committed to the Copenhagen target.