Mr. Speaker, there are a couple of points I would like the hon. member to respond to.
I may be a bit of a slow thinker, but the hon. member for Davenport in the question and comment period could not understand why we could not understand that if the summers are that much hotter and there is such a great demand for electricity to run our air conditioners, that creates more smog. On the surface, one would have to think that was a logical conclusion, but then one would also have to conclude that if the temperature has risen to the degree that it is going to make that much difference to the smog conditions in Toronto, then in the winter, because it is so much warmer, we would not have to run our furnaces nearly as much. Therefore we would have much less CO
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produced in the winter which would perhaps more than offset using the air conditioners in the summer.
Maybe the hon. member for Davenport should run his scenario through to its conclusion. Perhaps the member could comment on that.
Also the hon. member for Davenport and other members on the Liberal side in the last few days in this debate, when they can no longer argue their case on the science or the economics, they fall back to the position that Canada as a member of the world community has a responsibility to set an example as a leading nation in the world. There is some question as to whether or not Canada is a leading nation anymore, but if it is, then we have a moral responsibility to lead by example for the rest of the world and sign this accord whether or not our CO
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emissions are significant in terms of world emissions.
I would ask you to comment a bit on how you see our responsibility as a member of the world community.