Mr. Speaker, the member knows full well that the oil industry enjoys huge tax benefits here in Canada.
Quebec has come out firmly in favour of the Kyoto protocol and does not agree with postponing the 2006-2012 “window” to 2050. The minister, Mr. Béchard, confirmed this yesterday, saying that not only the Government of Quebec would not take no for an answer from Ottawa: all Quebeckers support the objectives of the Kyoto protocol.
How can the government be so out of touch with reality that the only hard target it has set has a deadline as far off as 2015, when—