Mr. Corey, I'm glad you raised the Kananaskis meeting. I followed it closely and was very encouraged by the fact that we actually had a federal-provincial meeting on any front, particularly on energy, but what disappointed me—and it leads to my next question—is this: is it possible to have in Canada a national energy policy or strategy or framework, some sort of coherent approach, without addressing greenhouse gases?
In all the presentations we heard this morning, not a single intervenor used the words “greenhouse gases”. When the Alberta Minister of Energy was interviewed after the Kananaskis meeting, the minister said it was not a place to talk about greenhouse gases. For most Canadians, who understand that 86% of greenhouse gases in Canada come from digging up, transforming, and consuming fossil fuels, that is a hard thing to understand.
If we are working and aspiring toward a national energy strategy, would you agree, Mr. Corey and Mr. Boag, that in the list of items you mentioned, Mr. Corey, wherein federal-provincial cooperation is occurring, one of the top three items might be how we are going to deal with the government's face-value commitment to reducing emissions by 17% from 2006 levels in the next eight years, by 2020?
Mr. Boag, can we start with you?