Evidence of meeting #25 for Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) in the 39th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was amendment.
A recording is available from Parliament.
2:30 p.m.
Bloc
Bernard Bigras Bloc Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie, QC
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
When we arrived here in this committee, we made a commitment to work constructively both with the government and all opposition parties in order to ensure that Bill C-30 indeed deals with climate change as well as air quality.
Ultimately, we had four basic objectives: first, integrate Kyoto targets into Bill C-30; secondly, create a system for trading emissions credits; thirdly — and I know this has not been easy to accept for some opposition parties — integrate a territorial approach that will allow provinces to implement their own plan while respecting a number of criteria set by the federal government; fourth, ensure that targets the government was about to set would be hard caps and not intensity-based. I believe this mission is accomplished.
I want to thank all of my colleagues for the open mind with which they met our requests. I believe that with this legal framework we now have in hand all the means required to fulfil our international commitments.
Thank you.
2:30 p.m.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Laurie Hawn
Thank you, Mr. Bigras.
I guess the last word goes to me as the chair.
I want to say it's been my first kick at the cat, and it's been a tremendously personal experience. I've appreciated working with the committee members. I appreciate the fact that we were able to keep the high-sticking and the cross-checking to a minimum.
It is an issue of tremendous importance to Canada and to the world. I'm pleased that we can report back to the House on time. I will maintain my impartiality and not pass judgment on what we're reporting back, but I want to thank everybody for the level of civility in a very tough situation.
I especially want to thank the people sitting at the table with me, Chad, Sam, Tim, Joann, and Marc, for making me look a whole lot smarter than I actually am.
We MPs are in the media and in the spotlight, and we get the glory, but it's the support people who make this place work.
With that, thanks. In general, it was a job well done in terms of the process.
The final word is that this meeting is adjourned.