Of course, it's a red herring, and it's inherently fraudulent. I mean, Canada's absolute greenhouse gas emissions, which are what matters, have risen 27% between 1990 and 2004. But if you applied an intensity-based lens to that period of time, our emissions intensity improved by 43%. That just shows what a pile of rubbish the intensity-based system is.
On February 6th, 2007. See this statement in context.