Mr. Speaker, Canada has refused to sign the Montreal declaration on greenhouse gas emissions.
Yesterday, the Minister of the Environment said that Canada did not sign because it was the host and that it was customary not to vote on items that are not on the agenda.
Now we learn from checking with the Department of Foreign Affairs that this decision was not a matter of protocol but a purely political one.
Does this political decision by Canada not indicate that, slowly but surely, Canada is withdrawing its support for the Kyoto protocol?