If I were in charge of an industry or a plant or a company that in spite of Canada's poor overall performance had made good reductions in CO2 emissions between 1990 and 2006, I would want to know how that was going to be treated. Am I going to get credit for that, or am I going to be held to the same standard as those companies in my industry who didn't do what I did? I think that's a major problem for making this a fair regime. One has to really look at the regulations that are going to come out of this to understand how it's going to work.
On January 30th, 2008. See this statement in context.