Mr. Boucher and Mr. Watkins, you work in different sectors and you are asking that we respect various sectors when the time comes to set the overall volumes of greenhouse gas reduction targets. However, when we were told earlier that the most important sectors in Canada were represented here, I thought that we had forgotten to invite the forestry sector, which is also very important.
Why not consider horizontal reductions rather than vertical ones? In other words, your respective materials are used in the same places. In one case, they are used to make roadways and sidewalks and the like, and in the other case, they are used to build buildings and bridges. Rather than saying that the cement sector and the steel sector should reduce their emissions, why not consider the “building” or “bridge” sectors? You could then specialize, because obviously cement will never equal steel and steel will never equal wood.