Madam Speaker, I want to take issue with my colleague from Alberta because he criticized some of the comments our environment critic made with regard to his support on the mandatory regulation of standards.
Elizabeth May, the executive director of the Sierra Club, in reference to a survey done over the course of the last election, to which that member responded, said that one of the biggest surprises they had was his commitment to regulate fuel economy and “abandoning the voluntary approach”.
During the same period of time, five days before the last election, Simon Tuck and Greg Keenan from the Globe and Mail said that the Conservatives “were abandoning the voluntary approach with regard to fuel economy and emissions and were going to the mandatory”.
I wonder if he could tell us, in terms of his opening comments to our environment critic this afternoon, what his position is. Is he in favour of mandatory or is he opposed to it?