All right. The first step must be a stabilization limit. Emissions are still increasing year after year, and that's definitely not a good sign. The government will therefore first have to set a limit in the context of which we will recognize the need not to exceed the emissions level achieved in 2005. It's too late to do any more. Moreover, we have to be able to establish a direct connection between the effectiveness of measures taken and pollutant levels.
For example, we could set an objective of stabilizing emissions at the 2003 level between 2008 and 2012. That would be the first objective. That would probably require us to achieve an average reduction of approximately 10%. That would be too low to enable us to achieve the Kyoto objectives, but it would be within the Canadian government's reach.
A very large portion of our emissions is associated with exports. As Canadians, our responsibility with regard to increased emissions is fairly limited. In the case of emissions attributable to oil and aluminum exports, for example, these are imports designed to meet the needs outside the country. In Canada, our domestic market is much too small for us to be able to consume all our exports.
We therefore have to negotiate, in the context of a second stage of the Kyoto Protocol, measures that take this specific situation into account. With the exception of Russia, Canada is the only Kyoto partner that is what is called an empty country, that is to say that exports far more resources than its own population can consume.