Mr. Ian Morton at the Environment and Sustainable Development Committee

On February 25th, 2008. See this statement in context.

February 25th, 2008 / 3:50 p.m.

Advisor to the Minister of Environment, the Hon. John Baird, for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference (Bali - December 2007), As an Individual

Ian Morton

Mr. McGuinty, I'm not a member of the government, so I can't defend its position on this.

I think at the plenary session Minister Baird did acknowledge that Canada needed to do more. And, as you point out, I think our plan to date may be insufficient for what the science is now indicating is going to be required—an 80% reduction by 2050.

Again, the Bali meetings were to outline a road map going forward, and to the government's credit, I think Canada did leave the meetings committed to that road map and to the meetings that are going to be happening this year in Poland, and for the 2009 negotiating period that's going to take us post-2012.

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