Environment committee  Absolutely, and that's the point we made. More specifically, we say we need regulatory clarity and consistency--

Environment committee  I don't think I said that. What I said is we need regulatory clarity and consistency--and we do have regulations for all manner of things, including all manner of environmental things--and we absolutely need that for greenhouse gases. One can classify that as direction--I'll lea

Environment committee  As a recognition of what that does, it creates a demand for carbon reduction and carbon offsets. It creates the drive or demand to move in terms of how capital stock investment in technology is deployed. The sooner we do that, the better. It's going to be a moving target and we'

Environment committee  You'll remember that a number of these organizations have been very clear that, first of all, I don't think we have a continental energy plan. It's a supply issue, as you mentioned, that's really at work. Commenting on that, groups like the Conference Board and the council of C

Environment committee  I understand, but we have a problem because... how do you look at the flow of emissions over time? What is the nature of the baseline? How do you bank credits if you get them? It's a very tricky situation. A company like Alcan clearly says they should receive credit for this.

Environment committee  We might have. I'll have to check the record. We had them here for one day. We packed it in and then went from--

Environment committee  Respectfully, we had a certain amount of time to do it in. Let's look at that in the future.

Environment committee  We didn't meet with them, no, but as I said, I'm quite happy to look at that.

Environment committee  There are three points I'd make in response to your question, briefly. Should there be a set price for carbon? The price of carbon you can do two ways: you can set a price for carbon, or create a demand for carbon offsets on the basis of a regulatory regime. Again, my third poi

Environment committee  It's a good question. As I said in my opening remarks, we're not a lobbying organization; the companies represent their own positions. But from a learning standpoint of sustainability, we can say that having clarity and acting sooner makes better sense because you can do the righ

Environment committee  We came here with the business delegation of EXCEL members in May of last year. We met with the minister and we met with others. We gave them input. We offered to be more consultative. We were not asked to do any more.

Environment committee  That was before.

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My name is Chris Henderson. I'm here in my capacity as managing director of the EXCEL Partnership. I'm going to do three things: explain to you what the EXCEL Partnership is, tell you what the view of this partnership is relative to Bali, and suggest wh