Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you for staying on with us. It gives us an opportunity to continue asking some questions. Also, thank you very much for appearing today with the minister.
Mr. Boothe, in the speech Minister Kent just gave, and I'm sure you're very familiar with the content, he said "We have put in place a plan that is already—I emphasize the word 'already'—reducing greenhouse gas emissions, GHGs." Then he said that he didn't want to give incorrect information.
But if we look at your department's website, we see that emissions, in megatonnes, went down between 2008 and 2009—obviously because there was a crisis—but that they increased from 701 megatonnes in 2009 to 718 megatonnes in 2010, and that emissions are expected to be 720 megatonnes in 2011 and 728 megatonnes in 2012. But the minister is saying that there are reductions.
On your site, it is also stated that, with the federal measures, the emissions in megatonnes are continuing to go up. So there's no point in having federal measures in place, knowing that the figures relating to emissions in megatonnes are going up, if we go by the numbers I just gave you.
So, could you explain to me the difference between what the minister just said and what appears on the website of your department?