Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
The place I'd like to start is back with Mr. McGuinty. He first suggested to you the false proposition that the government has no plan. The chair ruled that in order.
You pointed out that you had in your possession the “Turning the Corner” plan and that you were aware of certain enhancements to it.
Mr. McGuinty then suggested to you the false proposition that there's been no costing of the government's proposal, and I think your response may have been that you hadn't heard of it.
The National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy, in the person of Dr. Robert Page, testified before this committee that in fact that agency has done economic analysis. In fact, his evidence was to the following effect:
Our reports demonstrate the massive scale of the energy and technology transformation needed to meet the government's current targets of cutting greenhouse gas levels by 20% from 2006 levels by the year 2020. The NRTEE has shown that meeting this target will be quite challenging in itself for Canada.
So as my first question, do each of you agree with those conclusions or not?