Mr. Chairman, in recent weeks, we have heard at least 30 witnesses. Almost as a general rule, the Parliamentary Secretary asked them whether Kyoto targets were achievable or not. I asked them whether we had the technology needed to meet those targets and in what timeframes. We brought experts in the field in from all across Canada. They all told us that it would take four years to make any kind of change.
The results of what the Liberals did is that we now find ourselves at +35 per cent. Our Liberal friends have therefore introduced Bill C-288 to try and detract attention from the bill tabled by my government, the Clean Air Act. Either they want my government's bill to be put on a shelf somewhere or they just are interested in politicking. That's the term we use in Quebec to describe someone who puts his own personal interests ahead of the interests that are supposed to be paramount. Unless we brought all those people here for nothing, we should be able to recognize the fact that the Kyoto targets set by the Liberal government were not only unrealistic and poorly evaluated, but they were also developed on the fly.
In fact, without any embarrassment whatsoever, Liberal members admitted that they had drafted their Kyoto targets on the back of a napkin. But we're talking here about the economy of the whole country. Rather than thinking about getting re-elected and trying to achieve goals that are purely personal, we should be thinking of the interests of all Canadians. Those interests have to come before our personal interests, because we have obligations towards our parents, our grandparents, our children and our grandchildren.
What we are doing here through Bill C-288 is totally unacceptable, not only in my own opinion, but in the opinion of the experts who testified before us. We brought witnesses in from all across the country, which costs thousands of dollars, and the Liberals didn't listen to a single word they said and didn't act on any of their conclusions.
I am a little disappointed, Mr. Chairman.