Yes, utterly.
As a businessman, I have to travel on a regular basis to various countries in the world. It is clear that we are not being cited as examples regarding our carbon market policies, and that is an area I know very well.
Canada terminated the agreement and it had the right to do so. It could indeed withdraw from the carbon market despite the fact that the treaty had been ratified by all of the stakeholders in February 2005, when Russia ratified it. By withdrawing, as did Russia and Japan later, Canada did not, of course, earn kudos from the international community, especially not from Europe, which did not withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol, and...