When they implemented their policies, their investment capital came to Canada. Their goods producing employment fell 15% roughly. Our goods producing employment increased 26%.
Now let's go back to what this means international treaty-wise. It also means that we've got in the developed world the most efficient manufacturing sector in the world, because we just built it in the last 15 years. And I'll just do the one comparison. Europe is saying to us, cut emissions by 20%. I'll give you a specific. The U.S. is saying to us, cut emissions by 20%. I'm not saying don't cut emissions, but the U.S. is saying have comparable percentage reduction targets by sector. The average U.S. and European aluminum plant discharges 12 tonnes of CO2 per tonne of aluminum it produces. The average Canadian aluminum plant discharges six tonnes of CO2 per tonne of aluminum it produces.
The Copenhagen Protocol, the Kyoto Protocol, and the U.S. Congress's proposal is that we agree to the same per cent reduction. What the U.S. and Europe is proposing is that when they cut their greenhouse gases per tonne of aluminum from 12 to 10, we have to cut ours from 6 to 5. They are proposing those as equivalent measures. But it costs three times as much for us to cut from 6 to 5 as it will cost them to cut from 12 to 10.
Canada has to be a leader. We have to step up and say, that's not equivalent. That's not about greenhouse gases; that's about trade protectionism.
What should the developed world's greenhouse gas standard for aluminum be by 2015? Should it be 10--