If we're going to avoid even more disastrous impacts on the Canadian economy and environment than what I outlined earlier, we do have to get the developing countries of the world on board post-Kyoto, and there are negotiations going on even now as we speak about what to do post-Kyoto. Canada will have absolutely no credibility in those negotiations if we don't have in place by 2012 some policies, some programs, that show that we are at least trying to meet the target or the obligations that we earlier accepted.
On November 9th, 2006. See this statement in context.