Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'd certainly like to welcome our guests and thank them for their presentations here today.
Dr. Stone, in your presentation you made a comment about striving to meet the levels, but levels that are not dangerous to our livelihood, if I took you correctly. Because greenhouse gases remain in the atmosphere for decades, as you have said, we are already committed to additional climate change even after emissions have been reduced. It's there and it's facing us, and we have to develop the necessary measures to adapt to those changes.
I wonder if you would care to comment on what you believe—and anybody can answer—are the keys to creating an environmentally sustainable economy, trying to mix the concerns we have with the environment and the concerns we have with being able to live and work in this country.
It seems that most of the people who have made presentations to us are either on one side of this or the other. But in listening to you people this evening, I've found that you're in the middle of it. You're concerned about climate change, but at least you can elaborate on that somewhat. It seems to be a major concern for Canadians.
I'll just close, if I could, with the fact that when you ask Canadians today, the number one concern they have is the environment. Right behind that, though, they're very concerned about their livelihood.