Today the bill can't be valid if the tools to achieve the desired ends aren't available. So an enormous effort has to be made upstream from the bill to provide the accountability and audit tools.
Environment Canada only began to train auditors last summer. In Canada, there may be perhaps 200 to 250 trained auditors, which is clearly inadequate at present.
The bill must also contain a vision that goes far beyond the Kyoto Protocol and does not stop at the 2008-2012 reference period.
The bill must also separate export-related emissions from domestic consumption-related emissions.
Lastly, the bill must make reference to the life cycle approach. Let's take ethanol as an example. Everyone wants ethanol put into gasoline, but if you attribute emissions reductions to the ethanol that you put in your engine and the production of that ethanol causes more emissions, you won't be improving your national performance.