There was a proposition earlier, in Mr. Bramley's testimony, comparing the choices government has—between, say, a 1% reduction in GST and investments to combat climate change.
Here is a question for Mr. Dillon. The government has promised to pay out approximately $1 billion for the pine beetle epidemic in British Columbia, in community restructuring. That's one sector of the economy, and it doesn't actually do much for climate change in terms of mitigating.... We haven't talked enough about mitigation. That's the word that needs to be applied here; “adaptation” is a slippery slope.
The question is this. The government has this almost duplicitous notion right now that it is respecting Kyoto: we're staying within the protocol, but we're not going to do the targets. We're meeting our Kyoto obligations, I've heard the government say, but we're not going to meet the targets. Does your association understand that statement?