Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister and the Minister of the Environment have on numerous occasions reiterated their commitment to ratify the Kyoto protocol by the end of 2002.
The minister has even given two possible dates, namely June at the time of the G-8 conference, or August at the time of the EarthSummit in Johannesburg . Yet yesterday the Minister of the Environment did a flip-flop and indicated that he had no timetable for Canada's ratification.
Will the Deputy Prime Minister not admit that there is a lot of improvisation going on here, and that we are entitled to know, today, when Canada is going to ratify the Kyoto protocol?