We do, under the green municipal fund, have a capacity-building campaign called the partners for climate protection program. Under that program, municipalities--we now have close to 150, representing a significant portion of the Canadian population--voluntarily sign on to this program, pass a council resolution, and establish targets for greenhouse gas emission reductions.
At this point in time we have some pretty significant large cities across the country and some of the smaller communities as well that have actually developed action plans that would in fact exceed the Kyoto targets for their corporate operations. Some of them are now extending that to be a community-wide focus.
The challenge for our members, for municipal governments, has been in finding the resources necessary to actually implement the actions identified in those action plans. This is similar to the arguments made from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance in the United States suggesting that there was a very positive initiative and willingness to act by their municipal governments but there was the inability to move forward because of a lack of resources and because of a lack of leadership shown by all orders of government.