Mr. Speaker, in the member's discourse he mentioned a bit about the environment, which was the key issue for most of the election campaign until other events took over. There will certainly be ongoing debate about whether a 20% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 will be satisfactory.
However, the issue of how we will do that, particularly converting from carbon based energy production to nuclear, for instance, by 2020, is almost an impossibility. He knows that in the province of Ontario, with the Nanticoke coal-fired plant coming down by 2013, it takes about a decade to plan and build a new nuclear plant.
On top of that, even in my own riding of Mississauga South, there are three proposals for natural gas-fired plants. These are based on a five-year plan laid out by the province of Ontario. Once they are committed to, there is no way to replace them. They are committed to.
I ask the member whether this is a realistic and achievable goal given that the solutions are not implementable within the timeframe specified in the throne speech.