I was looking at the chair. Mr. Bigras was paying attention to what I was saying, so I looked in his direction.
Coming back to the point I raised earlier, even the David Suzuki Foundation said that it was important, if we did not want to send Canadian production off to developing countries...
In Canada, we produce a tonne of aluminum and generate four tonnes of C02; in China, they generate seven. If we increase the costs of producing aluminum in Canada, all we will do is send production to China or India where they produce almost twice as much CO2. That was the question I asked the environmental people or groups who know the situation well, like David Suzuki and the Pembina Institute that Mr. Cullen and Mr. Layton used as a reference when they drafted Bill C-377 that we have before us today.
I refer you to page 46 of the "blues" to see the witness's reply. He simply said: "We need fair treatment for our national production as we have for our exports. China should pay an equivalent tax on its production, and should pay more if it is less efficient."
Mr. Chair, Mr. McGuilty is involved in a discussion and it is distracting me. I would like him to hold his discussion outside or to...