Environment committee  No, I have nothing to add.

Environment committee  Mr. Godfrey, well said, I think. With regard to your analogy to the Second World War, that war began with the German invasion of Poland, as you know. One knew, or at least most people knew, that within days we would be facing a potentially catastrophic life-death struggle. Unfo

Environment committee  In terms of reality, I would say the following: everything that all of us have been talking about, this brave new world that we must all face and move into, will be more transformative than was the Industrial Revolution. That's how profound and how deep I think the change will be

Environment committee  Mr. Cullen, when I referred to “policy chaos”, I was not saying that the policies of this government, or indeed certain elements of the policies that have been put forward by opposition parties or by provinces, were chaotic. What I was saying—and this is a very important distinct

Environment committee  I do.

Environment committee  I do.

Environment committee  To answer that question, Mr. Cullen, would mean looking at many initiatives we've taken—some of them internal, some of them external—and I think you probably know our position on this. In the mid-1990s, I would say, although a majority or a core of the leaders of major enterpri

Environment committee  I would just say, “No, but”. That is, given the complexity of this and given how it will affect different regions and different industries, what you have is really a collection of prognostications, but no single number. The only thing I would add is that very early on, when it

Environment committee  The issues you have raised are very important in our opinion, Mr. Bigras. We acknowledge that the manufacturing sector has been very affected economically, particularly in Ontario and Quebec. If I may, I would prefer to answer in the language of Shakespeare, rather than in that

Environment committee  Mr. McGuinty, I'd like to just add to what my colleague John has said. I've been deeply immersed in this issue since the early nineties, and this is really an appeal to this committee and to you as parliamentarians, because I know we are preoccupied with meeting certain targets

Environment committee  What we've said, Mr. McGuinty, to be fair, is that we have not done the analysis. I would submit, with the greatest of respect, that no one whom I've talked to.... There has been some economic modelling done on this. We come at it from the point of view of two things, and I thi

Environment committee  Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon. It is my great pleasure to be here today representing Canadian Council of Chief Executives. Chair, I will present a brief introductory statement, stick to seven minutes, and then my colleague, John Dillon, and I will be pl