No.
First of all, we do accept this as a friendly amendment in its current form.
Second, I would take advantage of having the floor simply to respond to a couple of the points. I'm afraid I didn't get them all written down, but let me deal with a couple of the points Mr. Jean made.
One was the comment about the royal recommendation.
Once again, the language that we find under the plan to which he referred and that he quoted—under proposed subparagraph 103.03(1)(a)(iii), “spending or fiscal measures or incentives”—that whole language of proposed section 103.03 is lifted from Bill C-288. The difference is that Bill C-288—and the language is exactly the same—says this is what we're going to do up to 2012 for the first Kyoto period; the language of this amendment picks up the story and reiterates exactly the same list of measures that may be undertaken: “market-based mechanisms such as emissions trading or offsets”, “spending or fiscal measures or incentives”, etc.
In other words, Bill C-288 was deemed to be in order by the Speaker of the House, so we used it as the precedent for using the same language while extending the principles out from 2013, so that the royal recommendation.... We were very careful about putting it that way. That's the first point.
On the second point, on air quality, I think we're probably going to have a more extensive discussion with the help of our friend Mr. Cullen in a moment, but I'll simply expand a little bit about what we're doing here.
Essentially the proposed bill speaks of objectives; it does not speak of standards. What we wish to do is be more ambitious in this passage and to speak of standards to be established for the country.
The basic format is taken from what happens currently in the United States, so the question that Mr. Jean was raising about zones very much picks up on the language of airsheds, which is used in the United States. We're doing this partly because where there are airsheds that cross borders, it gives us interoperability; we will be able to talk to our American counterparts for these airsheds and deal with those quality issues.
Simply, there are two points. The zones make sense because that's the nature of pollutants: they take place over certain geographic areas. They're not like greenhouse gases in that regard. As well, we have tried to make this consistent and interoperable with the American regime because we think it will allow us to recognize the reality that often those pollutants come from south of the border and we would want to be able to work cooperatively with them.
That is a beginning of the discussion on air quality, although it's a very important discussion that I think Mr. Cullen is going to want to pursue at some other length.