Bill C-2 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  I just want to add a brief point, if I might. With respect to your question about the filing requirements, just to make it clear, our organization does not lobby on behalf of individual members. We only lobby with respect to public policy that we feel would benefit the membership

Bill C-2 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I just want to make clear that, in my reading of the legislation, it does not make it clear. The notes that accompany it say incidental meetings will be dealt with by regulation, but it's a standard rule of legal interpretation that the regulations can't c

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. It's a pleasure to be here. For those of you who may not be aware of it, let me just give you a brief introduction to my organization. The Canadian Council of Chief Executives represents 150 CEOs of Canada's largest companies. They're active in all sectors

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It's a long and complicated answer, but I think there are a couple of points. First of all, could Canada meet the target? Yes, if we were prepared to buy massive amounts of foreign credits, we could meet the target. We could have a debate about how mu

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Bigras. There are at least a couple of points. First of all, the technology that we're talking about related to carbon capture and storage is being done on a demonstration basis in a couple of places right now. One of the key challenges is not just the capture tec

Environment committee  I hesitate to wade into the federal-provincial domain, but I don't think there's a simple answer to your question, Mr. Bigras. The reality is that in many respects we do need to decentralize the decision-making down to the individual consumer, as I said earlier, down to the indiv

Environment committee  Since the protocol was negotiated in 1997, we have said that we have serious questions about the achievability of the target. That does not in any way suggest that we are not serious about addressing greenhouse gases. If you look at our policy papers over the years, we have been

Environment committee  Yes, I believe it is, over the longer term. Not very easily in the short term, but over the longer term, absolutely. That's what a number of our companies, both here in Canada and internationally, are trying to do.

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  I think the question is whether we understand what those policy choices are today and whether government always make the right choice.

Environment committee  The reality is that our economy, to a significant extent, has been based on the resources we have. We could make choices. We could say we're not going to develop some of those resources, but we'd have to figure out what parts of the economy we are going to use to replace that rev

Environment committee  Mr. Cullen, emissions trading is an extremely complex area. I want to try to be clear here, but it's not--

Environment committee  --easy to give a simple answer to your question. The reality is that yes, as Nancy said, many of our businesses facing regulation would like to see the flexibility of some kind of an emissions trading regime. The reality is, though, that one can't answer that question without u

Environment committee  At the end of the day it's about the flexibility to have emissions trading. Some of those companies are already voluntarily participating in both domestic emissions trading and international CDM purchases because either they have their own company corporate commitments to meet or

Environment committee  No. Strictly through domestic measures, we can't.