Environment committee  Bonjour.

Environment committee  Good morning, and thank you for virtually welcoming me to your committee. I'm going to address the committee in French. However, I can answer any questions in English. Allow me to introduce myself: my name is Claude Villeneuve, and I am a professor at the Université du Québec à

Environment committee  Thank you, sir. So these are missed opportunities, not to mention the carbon market. I'd like to close by saying that uncertainty kills the economy. Clear rules make it possible to integrate costs. I would especially like to call on committee members to consider one thing: I've

Environment committee  Thank you very much. There are a number of factors. The first concerns costs. I'm not an economist either, but the life cycle approach absolutely has to be put forward. The life cycle approach enables us to establish, from the cradle to the grave, the costs incurred by producti

Environment committee  Today the bill can't be valid if the tools to achieve the desired ends aren't available. So an enormous effort has to be made upstream from the bill to provide the accountability and audit tools. Environment Canada only began to train auditors last summer. In Canada, there may b

Environment committee  I'd like to speak on that point.

Environment committee  Yes. The carbon market was based on the SO2 market model, and the difference is unfortunately very great because the SO2 market in the United States, which worked relatively well, is linked to a pollutant that is subject to the same regulation in the same area. Establishing an in

Environment committee  The issues are enormous, particularly for the coastal area and northern Quebec. As regards the St. Lawrence, the river could disappear in the medium term.

Environment committee  I say the same thing. It's true, the energy sector is absolutely essential. We also have to question the limitation on energy responsibility by province. Very effective interprovincial actions could be taken. For example, in terms of greenhouse gas reductions, it would be much m

Environment committee  If we go back to the example of a hockey practice, Canada is arriving at a rink where it has agreed to play, but it's six foot four and it only has size five skates. Obviously, for its first practice, it can't be very comfortable with regard to the Kyoto Protocol. However, if Can

Environment committee  Yes. It's very simple. Canadians, in their everyday lives, aren't the cause of emissions of this size in the domestic market. Canadians' day-to-day activities emit between six and 10 tonnes, depending on the province, but the remaining tonnes making up the 20 tonnes that we emit

Environment committee  Thank you. It's the same as when the promise was made to allocate 0.7 percent of gross domestic product to aid for developing countries. The promises that come from wishful thinking at the international level come back very regularly. I refer you to the objectives of the Millenn

Environment committee  I'd like to speak on this question.

Environment committee  The question of purchasing international credits is entirely relevant, but it's forgotten that an enormous number of domestic credits have been neglected on small projects based in the communities. In fact, that money will increase our GNP because it will be used in Canada by Can

Environment committee  If you'll allow me to speak, it's necessary, to stabilize emissions — we're not even talking about cooling — so that the climate stabilizes at a level two degrees warmer than the current climate, for another three centuries, we would need a reduction of 1.8 tonnes of carbon, that