Finance committee  Thanks for allowing me to expand on that a little bit. I'm not advocating one or the other, but probably a combination of the two. The reason my brief focused on the tax is that I had a good example of a levy having worked really well in the United Kingdom without having exactly

Finance committee  As most of the committee probably will know, we are in the phase now of entering into the new negotiations for a new agreement beyond Kyoto, and the Sierra Club of Canada is looking for a breakthrough from Canada to commit to absolute cuts, not intensity-based cuts, to emissions.

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and members of the committee, and thank you to the support staff as well, who are diligently working behind the scenes, I notice. It's a real pleasure to be here. The Sierra Club, Atlantic Canada chapter, has a presence in four of the Atlantic Canadian prov