Minister, how can you mislead the public by solemnly stating before this committee and before the cameras that there will be a 20%-reduction in greenhouse gas emissions when you know perfectly well that your plan includes a series of loopholes for polluters, thereby making it impossible for Canada to achieve its Kyoto target?
Intensity base targets is the first factor and using 2006 as the base year and the technology fund that will undermine the creation of a future carbon market are two others. Mr. Chairman, can we ask the minister to be clear and honest, to look into the cameras and to say that if oil sands production is going to triple in Canada, then our 2020 target is unachievable? As Mr. de Boer said last week, not only will Canada be considered to be at the bottom of the class, but its plan will also be a failure.
This plan is an absolute failure. Not only will it prevent us from meeting the Kyoto targets but it also compromises the targets set out by the plan. How can there be a 20%-reduction when Canadian oil sands production is forecast to increase three-fold, if not five-fold?