Mr. Speaker, in terms of the ability of Canada to respond to air pollution and CO2 emissions, it is important that we set a clear direction early on for efforts in both these regards.
When we look at the idea of a clean coal plant and we say that we will invest great sums of money in reducing the emissions from the coal plant but that we will not take the next step right away to put in a system to sequester the CO2emissions, this leads the industry in the wrong direction. We need a strong response right now that speaks to both the issues of air pollution and CO2 emissions. We cannot have our industries not understanding right away that they have to respond to both.
I would like the minister to comment on that. These issues are not that easy to separate and should not be separated in the solutions that we are proposing.