Dr. Hyndman, I was practising corporate law in Europe during that time, and I can assure you that I have heard those myths put forward a number of times. The Germans and the Germany Treasury ate an awful lot of cost in terms of supporting East Germany's joining West Germany. I lived in Britain, in London, and I saw the costs incurred by the British Treasury and the British people.
So to assert that the Europeans achieved this without pain, because the wall fell, is exactly the kind of myth that the Republicans in the United States perpetrated for a decade and that this government has been perpetrating for four years. I don't buy that for a second. I just wanted to make sure that we got on the record that it isn't true that these targets being put forward by the NDP in this bill are the most aggressive in the world.
I also want to remind you--I think you said something about 2005-06--that of the 182 signatories to the Kyoto Protocol and the UNFCCC, Canada is the only Annex I country to have formally abandoned 1990 as the baseline year.