Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Prime Minister. Last fall in The Hague the global accord on greenhouse gas reductions went up in smoke due to a major disagreement over the carbon sink concept.
On the one hand we have the Americans tripping through the forest counting the trees as their contribution to greenhouse gas reductions. On the other hand we have Europeans backed by the United Nations climate change panel rejecting the American position as flawed science, as simplistic and short-sighted.
Could the Prime Minister explain why we have the environment minister headed for Latin America to peddle bad science—