Mr. Speaker, the Minister of the Environment should also know that when our present leader was minister of the environment in B.C. he drove a natural gas car and that he has sent a formal letter requesting an environmentally friendly car here, which has not been acted on.
The Prime Minister apparently is not aware of the difference between pollution and greenhouse gas emissions regulated by Kyoto. Kyoto is about reducing CO
2
levels. Canadian sources of air pollution, CO
2
emissions, can be removed much less expensively than by Kyoto.
Why is the government committed to using the political approach--