As you well know, the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy is unfortunately going to disappear, once again as a result of the budget cuts in the recent budget. This has been the only non-partisan organization bringing the environment and the economy together. The organization's report said that costs for climate change adaptation were even higher than the costs for the immediate fight against climate change.
We are withdrawing from the Kyoto Protocol under the pretext that it is going to be too costly. I assume that we are not fulfilling our 2020 commitments under the same pretext. The current changes, including those to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, are clearly in favour of the pipelines and more oil, not the fight against climate change. All those changes are going to cost us more in the long run. Are there no figures because we are trying to pass the debt to future generations, as it was done with the contaminated sites?