Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Yes, that's exactly our position. We feel the Kyoto targets and timelines are very achievable. We have a smart and rich country. All we need is the will to achieve them. And as you know, the Kyoto targets for 6% below 1990 levels are not sufficient to help us fix climate change i

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Yes, you're quite right. Particulate matter smaller than or equal to 2.5 micrometres in diameter were put on the CEPA toxic list. The normal CEPA toxic process then took place, whereby the government had to take action within a certain number of years. The process to develop the

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  No, 2.5 is the nature of the particle in the air. The new standard is a level of 30 micrograms per metre cubed, over a 24-hour measuring period. It's rather technical, but the level is set at 30. If we were to lower the level that's allowable in the air, it would obviously help

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Yes, you could.

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Not for that.

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Yes, certainly there are good international standards that we could compare them to. I don't have the actual numbers here with me today, but I certainly could forward them to your committee. As you can imagine, there is great variance between those in the United States and those

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Certainly, we're aware of Dr. Louis Drouin's work in Montreal particularly, and in helping to get citywide standards that are actually perhaps lower than the Canada-wide standards. It's particularly important for the Montreal area, which has both traffic problems and wood stove p

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  It's one of the standards that could be looked at, yes. I'm not sure about the actual numbers of the standards. I think they are slightly more stringent. On the other side of the coin, too, is whether they're being achieved. That's the other thing to look at as well.

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  You make an interesting point that of course you can't regulate what goes on inside people's houses. What you regulate is the content of materials at the point of sale. So for the production of something, you regulate a lower emission level or a lower content of things that will

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  We've just finished writing a little backgrounder to help us explain this to the public, because it can be confusing for certain people. When you burn fossil fuels, you emit a whole bunch of pollutants--many of which we call air pollutants--like particles, volatile organic compo

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  If you compare it to burning fossil fuels, we've been burning fossil fuels in large amounts for our power sources, for example, for many years and we're now able to get a large percentage of the air pollutants out of the air when we burn fossil fuels. Certainly the volume that we

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Correct.

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Correct.

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  We are signatories to the Kyoto Protocol, and those are their techniques, yes.

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Yes.