As the government makes clear at every occasion, we are trying to balance our activity both in mitigation as well as in adaptation to ensure that we not only protect the environment and work towards greater environmental sustainability, but at the same time protect what is still a very fragile economic recovery.
Environment Canada is essentially a regulatory department. With regard to climate change regulation, as each set of regulations is completed, we do a cost-benefit analysis to look at exactly the achievable mitigation outcomes as well as the benefits to health, to the economy, and of course to climate change mitigation.