Thank you, Chair.
Again, thank you for your very enlightening testimony.
The fact is that the target set in Bill C-311 came before the global recession and came before President Obama's new administration in the United States. It came with no obligations on the major emitters. So the targets now in this new reality are unrealistic and, as you've said, do not provide a good policy.
The fact is that before we became government, the Liberals were in government for 13 years. They set targets and ended up 35% above those targets, with growing emissions. The fact is that this government is committed to targets of 20% reductions by 2020, and none of the witnesses have supported Bill C-311 as being a good policy that would cause us to remove ourselves from a North American approach.
In summary, are we on the right track by having a North American approach, North American targets, as we go into a new international agreement? In summary—yes or no—should we have a North American approach?