That is incorrect. I am going to speak in English.
President Obama has not said that the California standard will be the national standard for the federal government of the United States of America. He has not said anything of the sort. He has directed the Environmental Protection Agency to reconsider the California waiver that precluded individual states from adopting their own standards. There's been no suggestion that the California standard will necessarily become the standard that applies in the United States in the time between 2012 and 2020.
What President Obama has also done is he has defined the fuel economy standards in the United States for the 2011 model year. He has not yet defined, nor has his administration defined, the standards from 2012 through to 2020. Those remain to be determined.
As we announced yesterday, we will be the first federal jurisdiction in North America to adopt tailpipe emission standards. We will be the first jurisdiction to regulate automobiles on the basis of the quantum of carbon they emit. This is not done in the United States at this point in time, so Canada will be leading the way in that respect.
We do, however, intend to harmonize those tailpipe emission standards with the very specific fuel economy standards that are developing between us and the United States in terms of the automobile industry. The rationale for doing that is clear. We want to have the highest possible environmental objectives. They need to be achievable. The automobile industry is deeply integrated across the border, and it is impractical to have differing fuel economy standards at the federal level in Canada and the federal level in the United States. So I've made the decision, with cabinet support, to exercise our jurisdiction under the CEPA legislation to introduce the first regulations of their kind.