Environment committee  Environment Canada or the people who negotiated the agreement would be in a better position to answer that question. This is how I understand it; if Canada were to fall short of its 300-megaton objective at the end of the 2008-2012 period, there would be a new round of negotiati

Environment committee  A new target would be set for the second period. Unless I am mistaken, that is how I believe it will work.

Environment committee  Mr. Robidoux could tell you if we have taken any penalty into account. As to whether or not a catch-up plan might allow us to avoid any penalties, that would be a question for Environment Canada or the people who negotiated the agreement. I have always considered that a second pe

Environment committee  That remains to be negotiated. I don't know. I can't answer your question. Mr. Robidoux—

Environment committee  Not only to get more of them; the $6 million is going to existing programs. Naturally it's to get more off the road, but it's to get those vehicles off the road in an ecologically responsible way. So it's not just parking a vehicle in a scrapyard and letting the oil—It's draining

Environment committee  Yes, that's right.

Environment committee  The Kyoto objectives were supposed to be met in eight months. There was no intention of reducing the GHG emissions by 6% based on the 1990 baseline by 2012, but to meet that objective over a five-year period, between 2008 to 2012. The target is averaged over a five-year period. W

Environment committee  I think you're right. In the end, it's individual Canadians who will bear the cost of any action, and it can turn into an impact on the price of energy, whether it's electricity or gas. As new regulations are introduced to make cars more fuel efficient, it is quite likely that th

Environment committee  Maybe Benoit wants to extend this point, but some of those benefits are captured in the economic modelling, I think, of the plan. For instance, introducing the regulation will lead to a renewal of the capital stock, and as that capital stock is renewed—In the case of the steel in

Environment committee  It has been part of the--

Environment committee  I don't believe so.

Environment committee  We did some a long time ago.

Environment committee  It was probably in the early 1990s, at the time of the Rio meeting and all that. There is a published discussion paper that was looking at various alternatives to the—

Environment committee  Since then, I don't know; I'd have to ask Benoit, but probably around 1992 we did one looking at what a carbon tax would make.

Environment committee  There are discussions. Our G8 representative in the department, who attends all those international meetings, is making us aware that those discussions are gathering now, but there has not been work so far, or actual proposals that we could study.