I know a carbon market is a very innovative idea, but let me make two points about it.
First of all, it can't be domestic; it has to be international, because with the gap we have in this country, we're all going to be buying from somewhere else.
Second, to establish a carbon market you have to understand what it would take to make it happen. It's literally the equivalent of setting up a completely new economic system in this country. It is an absolutely huge and very complex endeavour that has been understated tremendously by people arguing that this is the magic bullet.
You literally have to decide on numbers for every plant in this country. That means the federal government--and it will be the federal government, Mr. Bigras, so this is going to be a little bit of an issue for you people--will have to go into a plant, Patrimoine Québec, and decide on the level of emissions it should have, because if you can't set a number, you have no differential with which to trade.
That means an unbelievably heavy hand of government. Some people would argue you need to do that, given all of the science. I haven't seen government do a very good job on these kinds of things. It would take literally years to even understand our sector and our companies. The chance of setting the wrong number is probably more likely than setting the right number, so that would likely result in driving investment out of the country to countries that have less environmental performance.
On the last point, Mr. Bigras, you've seen these numbers. I know you have the same arguments for Quebec. We haven't received one single bit of credit for this since the climate change discussions started, so I don't believe we'll get any credit, and I don't believe we'll have anything to sell. We'll just end up with higher numbers, and in fact that is exactly what happened. We ended up with higher numbers based on our previous performance.