Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, witnesses, for appearing.
It's too bad our format precludes, Mr. Chair, a more immediate debate among the witnesses themselves, because I think that's what Canadians would really benefit from. That is, hearing whether there is a higher degree of consensus among them as individual witnesses, or not.
In some instances I've seen our environmental representatives nodding in complete disagreement with each other, and sometimes I've seen them in complete agreement with each other. I've seen our domestic and North American manufacturers nodding in disagreement with our international manufacturers, and so on and so forth. I'm going to do my best to help illuminate the differences, and maybe come to some points of consensus.
Is it fair to say that all of you agree that we need new standards? Yes. Is it fair to say that all of you could live with new regulations for standards? More or less? Great. Is the real difference, then, in the kinds of fiscal measures that might be brought to bear to facilitate the transition to those higher standards?