Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I just want to mention that, in response to a question I asked the Minister of Canadian Heritage in the House of Commons, he replied that the government was going to include its new target in the legislation. When this committee met last week, in response to a question I asked the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, he replied that the government would include its new target in the legislation. I see that the government is not doing that.
Today the government refused when the Bloc Québécois extended a hand to include a target in the legislation using a 1990 base year. We have taken note of that. We have also noted that the NDP has said that there's no point including a target in this legislation. Given that Canada has to provide its nationally determined contribution, NDC, the amendment carries no added value. I believe this is a way the government has found to not include its own target in its own legislation, and that is distressing.
I wanted to get that on the record for this committee. All it does is replace a clause in which the government was going to set an unknown target within six months of the law going into effect with a clause stating that the government will set a target by November 2021, regardless of what the target is.
I find it extremely distressing that the government is not keeping its word. They committed to it twice in public. This is the way they have found to get out of it.