The Environment  Mr. Speaker, over the next two weeks, in Nairobi at the UN climate change conference, one of the issues countries will be dealing with and discussing is how we can review the Kyoto protocol. It is an important agenda. It will include discussing what has worked and what has not. W

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I would like to share a short story because I know I do not have a lot of time. I am going to ask the hon. member to share a different perspective. My father is 84 years old. He fought in the second world war, as did his brothers, my uncles. My father was a tank in

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, we see the hon. member puff out his chest and act like he supports the environment, but in reality the hon. member owes the House an apology. Today he voted against the environment. He voted against cleaning up the air. He owes the House an apology.

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, this is another example of the hon. member not doing his homework. Nothing prevents the Montreal Exchange from establishing a carbon credit along the lines that currently exist in Chicago. The notice of intent that we released last week explicitly mentions carbon tra

Environment committee  Mr. Chair, I think we've reached consensus on a plan. Is there any objection with the plan that's been laid out, which Tim has made very clear, in the spirit that the witnesses for the next two meetings...?

Environment committee  Yes, and some of the discussion taking place now will be taking place over the coming weeks.

Environment committee  Mr. Chair, Tim has shared a list: urgency, impact, update on Kyoto, mechanisms and modelling, international, and then accountability, in that order, with some flexibility for the last four. We're in favour of that. There are two topics, and I just want to clear up a comment fro

Environment committee  Excuse me, could I interrupt for a quick question? I'm not sure who it was, but somebody mentioned David Suzuki. You had him on your work plan of November 2, which is today. Is he not going to be available any other day?

Environment committee  That's unfortunate.

Environment committee  We may then want to provide plans for our meetings of next week and then be a little flexible, depending on when witnesses are available for the other topics. If we could agree on the focus of the six meetings, we could give the clerk some flexibility to find out when we can best

Environment committee  Mr. Godfrey introduced his plan a week ago. We've submitted a plan, and there are some overlaps. I had a little difficulty following some of his suggestions, but if we were to start with what he is proposing for meetings for next week, the 7th and the 9th, is he wanting to stay

Environment committee  Thank you. Mr. Cullen made a suggestion that he was hoping the clerk would provide a schedule or a listing of upcoming business to make our responsibilities a little clearer. If he's suggesting that we defer, that would be an option we could consider and then deal with this at

Environment committee  But the point was made by Mr. Harvey that we have until the end of February. It was the decision of the committee—and I respect that, which was the point I was bringing out—that they are going to do it within that timeframe. Originally the proposal from the Liberals was that we

Environment committee  Mr. Chair, what we're talking about in this motion is that for the next five weeks, starting next week, we already have the witnesses contacted. We can keep up that momentum, so it's not a lot of work. We have been accused of maybe not working that hard. We do work hard. I thi

Environment committee  I will add a clarification to what Mr. Cullen has said. The motion says that we'd have one additional meeting per week until the Christmas break; at that point we will be done with Bill C-288, so we could then go back to the CEPA review at full speed. It keeps momentum. It keeps