Francis Scarpaleggia at the Environment and Sustainable Development Committee

On November 19th, 2009. See this statement in context.

November 19th, 2009 / 12:25 p.m.

Liberal

Francis Scarpaleggia Liberal Lac-Saint-Louis, QC

So then the naive question is, who does your EU-wide target bind? It's binding on whom? In other words, if the 27 countries haven't agreed to individual country targets, who is the EU's target binding on?

My second question is kind of a related question: When you say it's binding, does that mean there's no negotiation, that you will not be negotiating your binding EU target whatsoever in response to what other countries might come up with?

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