Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  If I could just comment on that, there are a lot of different options out there. Firstly, every one of them is very expensive. There are a lot of people writing about ethanol now, a corn-based ethanol. You'd have to transfer almost every acre of ground in North America to produci

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  No country that signed on to Kyoto has been able to meet the targets, but that doesn't mean they're meaningless. As long as everybody is working towards those targets and using their own best way to get there, I still think it's the most important way. If we were to close all o

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  My colleague says I can't answer that, but I think I can answer it. First, it's impossible to get there by 2008 and 2012. That would be the point I would make. Even if Canada did everything possible, it couldn't do it by itself. If the United States doesn't do it, and if other

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

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  We are down to 1% on the new vehicles sold. The quickest way to reduce to 1% is to get rid of all the older vehicles. It's not realistic to say that we're going to take everything a year back, but if you went from even ten years back.... Mark, what are the numbers? Is it 37%?

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Yes, it's 37 to one, so it's a huge improvement. Getting some of the older vehicles off in a hurry would make a big difference.

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  I'd like 25% fuel efficiency on every vehicle sold in Canada by the 2014 model year.

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  You'd have to start immediately to get there by 2014.

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  It would reduce overnight to 1%. We contribute about 12% today. We would reduce overnight. If you took all the vehicles that are a year old or older, you would be down.... It wouldn't be a problem; we wouldn't be talking about our industry.

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Mr. Chairman, I would like to add that there's been a huge drop-off in individuals buying trucks just for the sake of driving a half-ton truck. Those sales are now more steered to farming, construction, and so on. There's a huge drop-off in individuals buying just for the sport o

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  General Motors has announced a new Camaro in Oshawa. Jim Flaherty and I were there celebrating it, as were a whole lot of other politicians of all stripes. General Motors has made it very clear that if they can't sell that vehicle in Canada.... If all we can do is build it here a

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  You can't manufacture what people don't want; you can't sell it. You can manufacture it, but it doesn't work.

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  The reality is that our information says that can't happen. Why would you have a fuel efficiency standard when some of the biggest gas guzzlers are the Silverado built by General Motors, the Tundra built by Toyota, and the Ram built by DaimlerChrysler? Why would you have a standa

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  And the timing. It's hard to do it without the timing.

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  In my mind it is, yes.