This bill does not apply to any specific government; that is to say, it doesn't say Conservative government or Liberal government. It simply says that Canada has made an international obligation under the Kyoto treaty. The Minister of the Environment herself, in Nairobi, indicated that Canada was not withdrawing from the Kyoto agreement.
As has been pointed out by the Conservatives opposite, there was the statement of the Commissioner of the Environment, which was reiterated yesterday, that what we need is an integrated plan if we're going to be in the Kyoto agreement. We need a plan to show how we're going to get there. We need accountability measures. She found these useful.
The government members have indicated that there will be a plan forthcoming. That plan presumably has to have some relationship, if it's going to be about greenhouse gases, with the commitment that the Minister of the Environment herself made toward the Kyoto process.
I find it entirely logical that in the interest of greater accountability, which apparently is one of the hallmarks of the government, to be completely consistent if we're going to honour our Kyoto obligations, if we're going to have a plan, we'd better have a monitoring mechanism to see how all of that works. And that doesn't depend on any particular political party or any particular political leader. It simply follows up on the suggestions of the Commissioner of the Environment in her September report. That's what this is about.