Mr. McGuinty, I'd like to just add to what my colleague John has said.
I've been deeply immersed in this issue since the early nineties, and this is really an appeal to this committee and to you as parliamentarians, because I know we are preoccupied with meeting certain targets: I would make one very strong argument about the absence in so many of these initiatives that we have seen—and I don't think this is done out of any malice aforethought or an unwillingness to tackle what for all of us is an extremely important issue—of identifying this as a total Canadian problem. We see, time and time again, this focus on large industrial emitters, who, as we accept and have accepted for a long time, have a very important responsibility in dealing with this issue, not only in terms of meeting targets but also in terms of investing the new technologies.
The appeal I would make would be this: any purported policy, any purported bill, any purported initiative that does not lay out before Canadians a total plan that includes emitters, producers, and consumers will never, never be credible. It will never be credible on the numbers. In my view, it will never be credible politically. It will never be credible against the most objective assessments of what is a good, intelligent, rational plan in accordance with the best of public policy.
In a nutshell, we're saying that we've seen the provinces take some very important and constructive initiatives. We've seen the Government of Canada and the parties in opposition offer some very constructive ideas. If there's one thing that's missing, it is this total approach. I just wanted to emphasize that.