I, like Mr. Mai, got involved in politics in part because of this very thing. So we have something in common. I would like to speak very briefly on it.
I'm totally in support of this clause. I was on the environment committee for 18 months in 2004, when this was debated in part, and certainly I looked at the Kyoto Protocol in detail.
I can assure the member that transfer of wealth from developed economies to developing economies is not something that I think is helpful, especially when you consider that it's part of a protocol that represented somewhere between 40% and 50% of emitters, not even a true accounting of the major emitters—China, India, and the United States—which account, by themselves, for somewhere in the neighbourhood of 35% to 40% of emissions. They were not even in the Kyoto Protocol, nor were they going to be signatories in any way, shape, or form in the future because of what it was going to do.
I, like Mr. Mai, got involved to see the elimination of Kyoto. I'm very ecstatic to be part of this vote today, and I'm happy to see that Canada is withdrawing from it completely.