I appreciate that you're unable to make that assessment. I remember, going back to the early days of Kyoto, that there seemed to be a lot of difficulty in getting the government of the day's plan for what Kyoto was, the targets they had set, and how they were going to get there. Nor was it easy to find out what it was going to cost the government over the next ten or twenty years to achieve their targets. Quite frankly, I think Canadian taxpayers would have a hard time determining whether they were getting any value for the tax dollars that were spent.
I support your demand for encouragement and direction. The current government and governments to come should have solid benchmarks and assessment means—not just in the beginning, but throughout the progress of any environmental plans we make.
I know that the current government has set an ethanol target: 5% of gasoline should consist of ethanol by the year 2010. Do you think this is an achievable target that can be measured along the way, between now and 2010, so that we'll know whether they're on the right track?