In terms of addressing a very critical but small component of climate change, I'm very much supportive of this bill, but as I said, it addresses only a very small part of the issue.
As I mentioned earlier, and as I responded when I was asked to be a witness, my expertise is not in terms of greenhouse gas reduction. Even so, I was invited to be here.
I was at a meeting recently with the vice-president of a large energy company in Alberta, the fifth largest energy company in Canada. When I met with him he gave me an education. He told me that it would take about 15 years to retrofit one of their coal-fired generating plants in Alberta. As Mr. Cleland put it, you can't turn the economy around on a dime.
I appreciate that it applies to these large-scale projects, but it seems that there are other smaller projects in this country that could be retrofitted quite a bit more quickly. One project that we're all engaged in is getting to work every day. I've read that about 90% of all vehicle use is to move a single person less than five kilometres, to work and back each day.
Come on, we're all capable of walking or riding a bicycle five kilometres.