Since you want to move from talking to taking action, and since it would take about five years to pass a clean air act and bring in the requisite regulations, and since we have a mechanism called the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, which everybody agrees--including the commissioner when we put it to her here on Tuesday--is ready to go, both on dealing with pollution and on dealing with the regulation of greenhouse gases, why would we need a new piece of legislation, a clean air act, if we want to take action now?
What is to prevent us from using CEPA to get on with it right now, and won't bringing in a new piece of legislation, which is unnecessary in the view of the Commissioner of the Environment, slow things down unnecessarily?