Just by way of illustration, I'm quite active on the ISO 14000 standards internationally and domestically, and Canada played a key role in moving the greenhouse gas standard to ISO 14064 and ISO 14065 internationally. And when I go to international plenaries, Canada plays a very important bridging role between developing and developed countries. There is a lot of trust in Canada, and it enables us to do things that we would otherwise not be able to do. It is really important that if we feel we can't meet an obligation internationally, we still acknowledge that we have it, we benchmark against it, and we try to show when we're going to meet it. That becomes a very important psychological point when we actually do meet the target.
On November 9th, 2006. See this statement in context.