Mr. Chairman, I would have to clarify or qualify—I hope not to disagree with the honourable member—on one point. In the sense that a provincial action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions may be in an area of jurisdiction such as to provide for municipal transportation infrastructure, or to replace a particular form of electricity generation, or to regulate it, that would be in its own jurisdiction. Therefore almost by definition there wouldn't be any meshing, because the federal government makes use of its policy instruments in its jurisdiction and the province in its own.
But there's nothing stopping the Parliament of Canada from transferring money to the province in support of its exercise of its jurisdiction, which is what was done. It is clear that the objective was a shared objective, which is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.