Commissioner, I was at your press conference, and I'm glad to see you here again today. I remember at your press conference your conclusion was that the government urgently needs a credible, clear plan to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions with realistic short- and long-term goals. You then suggested questions government officials need to answer, that we need to develop a robust system for collecting and reporting information on expenditure and results. I want to try an idea out to see whether you think this would get us part of the way to what you were proposing.
Would it be useful if every year the Minister of the Environment had to come up with a climate change plan that would report, as you have asked, on such things as what measures have been taken to meet our obligations under Kyoto concerning emission limits--market-based mechanisms, spending and fiscal measures--and the date those are supposed to come into force; the amount of greenhouse gas emissions that would be expected to come from each of those; and what we did last year and and how we're meeting that standard?
I wonder if that would be helpful.