Environment committee   on air and climate change that makes sense for all concerned. We really hope those initiatives are not pushed aside with respect to a new approach to air. Mr. Chairman, this concludes my formal remarks. I'd be happy to take any questions that the committee members may have. Thank

Environment committee   happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. This committee and all of us in this room can no longer afford to shuffle the entire blame for contaminated water, for smog, climate change, and toxic chemicals solely to either industry or to government. As citizens and consumers, we

Environment committee  Okay. I read Mr. Suzuki's book. Indeed, he discusses climate change at length, but no solutions were ever really offered. I had hoped to find the miracle solution in M. Suzuki's book, since you mentioned it, but I still have not found it.

Environment committee  How many years have we had consultations with large industry around climate change, from the federal government?

Environment committee  It is safe to say that of the many things lacking in Canada's response to climate change, consultations wouldn't necessarily be one of them.

Environment committee   detailed analysis on climate change science and what it tells us as far as the reductions which should be achieved by 2020 and 2050 are concerned. We recommend, for 2020, a 25% reduction compare to 1990 levels, and 2050, a 80% reduction, still compare to 1990 levels. Other governments

Environment committee  . It comes back to the comments made by Mr. Bigras around the issue of adaptation. This country will be hit hard by climate change, and it will hurt our economy. We can only protect Canada if we secure reductions from all countries in the world. That's why we have to show that we

Environment committee  Have you made a comment on Bill C-30, the government's bill to deal with climate change, which would set targets to be announced in the spring of 2007? Would you have a position on that?

Environment committee  , the mining sector right now, huge, huge parts of our Canadian economy that are telling us at this committee, and other places in this Parliament, that climate change is affecting their bottom lines in a negative way, substantially so. I guess my question to you is, is it possible to grow

Environment committee   since 1997, and we have been talking about climate change since then. We were told that it was not feasible in the short term, and you're saying that it still will not be feasible by 2012, and that we must have short-, medium- and long-term measures. Do you think

Environment committee   at the percentage changes, both since we started tracking in 1992 and more recently last year, I'm sure you'll agree our performance is good. Similarly, I've talked about our climate change performance before this committee in the past and I think it's also good. There's more detail provided

Environment committee  Mr. Myers, how critical do you see the issue of climate change being, reflecting on reports by Mr. Stern and others and the comment Mr. Drexhage made about Kyoto being more predominantly an economic or financial agreement than an environmental one? How critical is this issue

Environment committee  Let me understand, first of all, how difficult those rules are to come by. Do we have case examples of what's required for the government to set up? Secondly, how important is it that the government actually has a climate change Kyoto plan--as an example, a large final emitters

Environment committee   in Canada would have to compete for that international investment. But it's a useful mechanism, and clearly, one of the weaknesses of our approach to climate change is that we have not had a very clearly defined registry or a very clearly defined market. Our organization has been

Environment committee   if, in your opinion, the Montreal Exchange has a good chance of being named the official exchange of Canada with respect to climate change. Could you tell us how this would be an advantage for the Exchange and what factors are in its favour?