Thank you, Mr. Chair.
In reading Chapter 1 of your report, managing air emissions, what strikes me and worries me is that we must ensure that the figures available to the public are as reliable as possible. Why? Because when we appear on the international scene, when we are estimating and issuing national inventories, it is important to have audited figures.
One thing strikes me particularly. Take the example of Quebec. When we consider Quebec's inventory of greenhouse gas emissions reductions, we learn that they rose 1.2% over 1990 levels. When we look at the federal inventory, we see that Quebec reduced its emissions by 1.5% over 1990. These are completely different figures coming from two completely different inventories. I can understand that there is a problem achieving good accountability with respect to greenhouse gas emissions.
On page 23, paragraph 1.53, concerning agreements with industry, that the government did not carry out any verification of the reported results. On page 18, in paragraph 1.39, regarding the Clean Air and Climate Change Trust Fund, you tell us, “The little analysis it did undertake is based on flawed assumptions”.
Here is my question: Does this lack of analysis of the greenhouse gas emissions plan reflect badly on the national accountability Canada presents to the world? In theory, we have increased our greenhouse gas emissions by more than 30% in Canada. Does the system Canada has established lead us to doubt the national reports presented by the government at the conference of the parties on climate change, for instance?