I'll answer from two perspectives, one from the forest industry's perspective. We can't speak for others, but I will talk more largely as a nation.
From a forest industry perspective, our good name is very important to us. Conducting ourselves in a way that tells the world they can trust us to take care of the environment when they're buying our products is very important. We've put our actions where our mouth is. Our actions embody that.
Canada, as a nation, makes a living by exporting natural resources. Whether that's energy or wood, it's the backbone of our economic story. If you look around the world, we're not going to make a living by out-innovating the Chinese. We have to be innovative. They're just as smart and work harder than we do, as do many other countries. So our competitive advantage as a nation is natural resources.
To achieve that competitive advantage, to sustain our ability to translate natural resources into quality of life for Canadians, we need to (a) be brilliant at extracting them and (b) be demonstrably responsible in extracting them. The efforts we are putting into the forest industry, and I know are being put into the energy industry—there have been huge improvements in environmental performance—are all part of sustaining and enhancing Canada's basic economic advantage, which is being the world's most sophisticated and, I hope eventually, the most environmentally responsible promulgator of natural resources. That's how we're going to maintain our health care, our salaries, and our quality of life. That's what we've got, and we've got to do it right.
I could go on forever on international treaties and Durban and all that. My views on what's wrong with the international or public or last four or five speeches that have been posted by the association on YouTube are pretty clear. I can summarize it by saying somehow or other those international negotiations have demonstrated more tribalism and self-interest by all parties than global problem-solving, which is what's needed. We've got a global commons that we have to take care of. Instead of behaving like a global community, we come to those meetings with our self-interest. The Europeans do it, and so do the Americans, the Chinese, and the South Africans. We Canadians do it too. Everybody comes to those meetings thinking of their national self-interest, so we have no forum to deal with the global interest. That's a real shame, but I don't know what the solution is.