Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Actually, further to Mr. Warawa's comments, we can take it back even further. I'm reading from a document called Creating Opportunity, the so-called Liberal plan for Canada. On page 70, they even had a short-term target. I'm surprised it never saw the light of day, but it was to cut CO2 emissions by 20%, from 1988 levels, by the year 2005.
If they had ever wanted to even keep that short-term target, they had the CEPA tools that they say are sufficient to do the job. They had them for six years and didn't utilize them, Mr. Chair--35% above the Kyoto target emissions, well above what they said they were going to do way back in 1993.
The argument that the current CEPA tools are sufficient enough I think only further exposes just how little inaction the previous Liberal government took on this particular issue. It suggests to us that we did need a tailored approach that was integrated to deal with not only greenhouse gas emissions--we saw a marked increase under the Liberals--but also to deal with pollution prevention, air pollution, and indoor air quality.
Mr. Chair, I think the route the opposition has taken here at committee certainly is not the right course.