Mr. Chairman, I am very pleased to table this amendment. The first part gives the federal government, through the Governor in Council, the option — and I want to emphasize the term “option”, since it has to tie in with line 29 in clause 6 — of limiting the amount of greenhouse gases that can be release, as provided for under the Kyoto Protocol, and specifically paragraphs 1), 3), 4), 7), 8) and 10) to 12) of Article 3.
As for the second part, insofar as the provinces pledge to comply with the 6 per cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, they will be free to decide how they want to implement the Kyoto Protocol. Of course, all of that depends on compliance with the commitments laid out in the Protocol.