Madam Speaker, I would like to thank the Minister of the Environment for at least clearing up one mystery. We now know why we do not have a plan. It is because the government thinks that everything is voluntary. Canadians only have to look at the government ads to know that it is about participating and being voluntary.
There is some confusion here. The Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Natural Resources left the distinct impression that there was support for the motion today. In fact, the other parties here actually understood that from his comments. We will get the blues to actually examine that. He did leave that distinct impression.
Then we have the Minister of the Environment saying that we do not support mandatory requirements for emissions and that we are into the voluntary thing. The real question here is, why after 15 years are we still at a point where we do not have any emissions standards? We are still working on voluntary standards that have not been put into place. The voluntary standards clearly are a failure and we still have no plan.
The minister said the plan will be released pretty soon. That is what he said a few minutes ago. I would love to know and Canadians would love to know, what does he mean by pretty soon? Five minutes after that he said that we do have a plan. What is it; voluntary or not, mandatory or not, a plan or not?