I'm just wondering if the mover would take a friendly amendment in relation to this, and I'll go through the reasons why.
First of all, I did have an opportunity to meet with the Australian National Emissions Trading Taskforce, and they indicated at the time that they were considering the possibility of being very flexible in any legislation they put forward to allow other international agreements to link to their trading market.
I'm wondering about proposed paragraph 94.1(2)(c), speaking of politics, the Kyoto Protocol, etc. I'm certain that's why they put that in there. Instead of the specific reference to the Kyoto Protocol, which obviously limits our future ability to either change the legislation or to continue to include international agreements to which Canada is a signatory or that Canada has ratified...instead of the specific reference to that, which obviously limits our ability in the future to link with others.
Of course, we don't want to limit the application of this section, but I have a second question. Weren't the Liberals the $15-a-tonne government, with $15 a tonne being the amount industry was going to have to pay as a maximum and taxpayers footing the bill for anything more? Now we've moved to $30 a tonne. I'm just wondering if, two years from now, it's going to be $45 a tonne or $60 a tonne. Where did this number come from? As we know, the European market has traded from one extreme to the other, so I don't understand why they flip-flopped on this one, from $15 to $30.
So there are the two questions, first of all on the amendment and secondly on the number.