Environment committee  We've heard that to this point greenhouse gas emissions have been climbing dramatically, and the plan is to bring them down to absolute reductions of 20% by 2020. The plan includes cleaning up air pollution. What has been the trend over the last many years on air quality in Canad

Environment committee  How much time do I have?

Environment committee  Again, I appreciate your being here. I don't believe any political party has ownership of the environment. I hope we all work together to find solutions, and I appreciate your work in providing guidance to the committee. Thank you.

Environment committee  May I speak on the point of order?

Environment committee  I think we have a very clear agenda, and to me it was very clear what Mr. McGuinty asked for. My understanding was that he asked for representation or a presentation from Environment, from Health, from Finance, and from NRC. Surely the committee is not suggesting that when they

Environment committee  On April 26, and now they want to—well, I don't want to use the words “waste time”, but it may be perceived as that—use the valuable time of the staff. So I'm concerned that this is a tactic that will waste time.

Environment committee  Go ahead.

Environment committee  One of the documents we each received was from the Library of Parliament, which provided a chart under table 1, starting with 1990 as the benchmark. We've all seen the projected increases in greenhouse gas emissions. We saw greenhouse gas emissions increase dramatically under the

Environment committee  Thank you. I have a quote from Mr. David Suzuki. He said he certainly agreed with the Conservatives that the Liberals “just didn't do the hard things that were needed to meet the Kyoto target”. He said the fact is we are 35% above the target. In an article that was presented b

Environment committee  Thank you, Chair. I want to thank the witnesses for being here. There was a similar presentation made on April 26 when the department provided some briefing to members of Parliament. I was there and I appreciated the briefing. I believe Mr. Bigras was there for about a half h

Environment committee  My understanding is that Canada will have one of the most stringent industrial regulation systems in the world. We're the only government to tackle both greenhouse gas emissions and pollutants together. Our targets are based on tougher standards than those of the leading jurisdic

Environment committee  So their green plan was based on intensity targets?

Environment committee  When we had witnesses, that question came up a number of times, and a lot of comments have been made about intensity targets. We heard it depends on what those intensity targets are, whether emissions will be permitted to go up or emissions will be coming down. By 2020, your mode

Environment committee  I have a point of order, and I will make my point very quickly. It appears that Mr. Cullen is badgering the witnesses. They've answered the question three times. For him to continue asking the same question over and over in different ways I don't think is fruitful.

Environment committee  Thank you, Chair. Please cut me off at five minutes so that I don't cut into Mr. Harvey's time. I've done that before, and I don't want to do it today. I want to really thank you, Chair. We're talking about solutions today, and I want to thank each of the witnesses who are here