Mr. Speaker, I read lately that China is considering the construction of 2,300 new coal-fired power plants, that is one new plant every 10 days. Carbon emissions would increase not by megatonnes, but by teratonnes.
One of the hon. member’s colleagues is whispering an answer to him, because he might not be able to find one by himself.
So, China is planning some 2,300 new power plants. China has ratified the Kyoto protocol, which my friends in the Bloc raise as a flag all the time. But China is going to release teratonnes of CO2, something which will cancel out all the Canadian efforts in no time.
But this gentleman is nonetheless suggesting -—and repeating—that the Kyoto protocol is the only way to improve our environment.
How does he explain that? How are we supposed to counteract these Chinese CO2 emissions that will have an impact in Canada and Quebec?