Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee Generally yes, although one can't predict how the UNFCCC will proceed. But we hope we would be able to dramatically reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, together with the rest of the world, yes.
February 13th, 2007Committee meeting
Dr. Barbara MacKinnon
Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee Yes, certainly. The bill itself didn't specify too many details about indoor air quality, but certainly it's pointed in the right direction.
February 13th, 2007Committee meeting
Dr. Barbara MacKinnon
Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee Obviously we're equally concerned about air pollution and climate change. And previously I discussed a bit about the integration, of how importantly they interact. So not only do we want to improve air quality, but just as general citizens we know of the threat of climate change,
February 13th, 2007Committee meeting
Dr. Barbara MacKinnon
February 13th, 2007Committee meeting
Dr. Barbara MacKinnon
Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee I won't comment on the number. Our position is that we would prefer to see emission reductions at home because they reduce air pollutants locally for our own citizens. And as a secondary measure, I understand you can achieve greenhouse gas emission reductions around the world and
February 13th, 2007Committee meeting
Dr. Barbara MacKinnon
Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee I'm not familiar with the 70% number.
February 13th, 2007Committee meeting
Dr. Barbara MacKinnon
February 13th, 2007Committee meeting
Dr. Barbara MacKinnon
February 13th, 2007Committee meeting
Dr. Barbara MacKinnon
Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee We are signatories to the Kyoto Protocol, and those are their techniques, yes.
February 13th, 2007Committee meeting
Dr. Barbara MacKinnon
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
February 13th, 2007Committee meeting
Dr. Barbara MacKinnon
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
February 13th, 2007Committee meeting
Dr. Barbara MacKinnon
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
February 13th, 2007Committee meeting
Dr. Barbara MacKinnon
Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee Yes, you could.
February 13th, 2007Committee meeting
Dr. Barbara MacKinnon
Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee Not for that.
February 13th, 2007Committee meeting
Dr. Barbara MacKinnon
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
February 13th, 2007Committee meeting
Dr. Barbara MacKinnon