Environment committee  The question is, what impact will Canada's achieving targets in 2030 have if China and Russia—the overwhelming majority in the world—do not take similar action?

Environment committee  Is it reasonable to think that Canada can lead China and the United States, who are responsible, I think, between the two of them, for upwards of 75% of global emissions? If so, at what cost? We're looking at a cost to our economy that will make us less competitive in our signifi

Environment committee  I was actually referring to exactly what you're saying around emissions, around diesel greenhouse gas emissions. Volkswagen had a device that allowed them to cheat and produce emissions up to 35 times greater than our regulatory standard allows, yet three years later the governme

Environment committee  All right, fair enough. The other thing is that you talk about reducing emissions, but we also talked about fires and the impacts we're seeing on climate change right now. Whether or not the government is successful in Paris, whether or not we achieve 2020 targets and 2030 targe

Environment committee  If all other—

Environment committee  If other countries don't—

Environment committee  Fair enough.

Environment committee  Well, thank you very much, and thank you very much for being here today. I wonder if I could take a slightly different tack. There are things the government is proposing for carbon taxes and stuff like that, but we also have a number of laws, environmental protection acts, that

Environment committee  It's interesting, though, because $2.4 billion has been fined in settlements for only 125,000 of those cars that have been sold worldwide, and we're looking at investing $2.6 billion in this climate financing around the world, yet we're not generating any revenue by enforcing our

Environment committee  Oh, but it's still out of Canadian taxpayer money—

Environment committee  —so we do have a responsibility to enforce our own regulations. Would you agree?

Environment committee  Does it speak to our credibility internationally—

Environment committee  —to be able to police our own regulatory structure?

Environment committee  So—

Environment committee  Okay, but part of the Paris rule book is around measuring and reporting transparently on that progress. How are we measuring and ensuring that our current environmental regulations are being enforced, and, therefore, that the claims we're making around our environmental capabilit