Mr. Speaker, I have served with the member on the environment committee. I know that he is very much concerned about the environment and specifically about the Kyoto file.
He has mentioned a few items within the budget, but I should remind the House that we have in the budget: $1 billion over five years in the clean air fund; $250 million to create a partnership fund for projects; $225 million over five years for home retrofits; $200 million over five years for the sustainable energy, science and technology strategy; $200 million over five years for the wind power file; and $97 million over five years for a renewable power production incentive. The member is also aware of the voluntary program of the automobile industry to reduce its emissions by 5.1 megatonnes by 2010. These are all important things.
The member does raise very legitimately the whole question of the credits. We know that as far as individual Canadians go our largest contribution to greenhouse gas emissions is the use of our automobiles. We all have a role to play there and that is why we have the one tonne challenge.
However, probably the one that we have the problem with, and I know the member and I think he can probably comment on this, is the issue of large emitters. It is really the area that we have to deal with. That is where the matter of credits and the purchase of credits comes in. We need to deal with that. This is not an easy move to make, because we are talking about major industry. I wonder if the member could speak about the challenge that large emitters present to us in terms of meeting our overall Kyoto commitments.