It's crucial. It's the key to success. I have said that climate change is upon us. Like it or not, that's a reality. We have to work towards solutions. One step would be to do a kind of lessons learned exercise collectively. You have a lot of questions, and here I'm talking to individual parliamentarians. You have a key role, as far as I'm concerned, to play in the future. You are the ones who can hold the government to account, keep the government's feet to the fire. We cannot afford to lose momentum again. A lot of questions are still without answers. Here again you can play a key role in asking some of those questions, especially to Environment Canada, NRCan, and TBS. We all know that there's a plan to come, but at some point we will have collectively to see how my recommendations and your recommendations...you have to remember that you came with recommendations to address climate change not too long ago. It will be important to get a regular report from the bureaucrats on how much progress has been made towards those recommendations and where we're going with the whole climate change file.
Let me just re-emphasize also the fact that we have talked about short-term goals. The Kyoto goal, is it achievable or not? It is up to the government to answer that question. But never forget that we can also establish long-term goals. As climate change will stay, we can go on a step-by-step approach and work towards objectives to reduce greenhouse gases in the near future.
You have a very important role, and I will always be more than happy to work with you collaboratively and to go beyond politics to address something that we will have at least to report back to our children a couple of years from now.