As I indicated in my opening, climate change action requires the government to take short-term action to bend the curve now—we're all familiar with COVID terminology—but it also requires that you put in place measures now that will start achieving further reductions 10 or 15 years out. If you set just one plan at a time, the government is focusing on achieving that target, but they are not charged with considering what happens next.
The minister, in his statement to you, said that the plan provides for “rolling targets”. That's not true. Rolling targets means that you set more than one target, and when one expires you set another.
The minister has indicated a couple of times that this is the intent here. However, the legislation as drafted has government either just considering what happens between now and 2030 or in five-year increments thereafter, and that doesn't really work in terms of considering both relevant...and for the 2050 target as a long-term goal.