Environment committee  Well, effective consultation and consultation about what we're really going to do, as opposed to debating the target....

Environment committee  That's not what we're saying, Mr. Cullen.

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I was in Kyoto in 1997. I've been to most of the COPs before and after that. I can tell you that there was never any analysis shared with the business community on what that target would actually mean and how it would be accomplished. I think the Commiss

Environment committee  Yes, in fact we made that suggestion in 1997, and contrary to Mr. Godfrey's assertion, we made the suggestion in 2002, when we tried to offer some alternative policies. In fact we have said all along that a much greater investment is needed to engage the consumer in reducing emis

Environment committee  We haven't put forward a detailed set of policies on transport, but we have suggested that a number of areas need to be looked at.

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

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  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  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