Environment committee  Thank you very much. I too am a native Albertan. I grew up in Edmonton; I'm a Beverly boy. I grew up under the national energy program, I saw it for its short-sightedness, and the Eskimos and Oilers will always be my teams. I have always been concerned about the national unity

Environment committee  I have to be honest; I haven't heard at all how the Chinese government received that particular message from the minister. I didn't hear one thing or the other. I think there was a strong sense for many that it was an interesting.... The fact that there was no number yet is perha

Environment committee  It is saying that it's very clear about its target, a 20% reduction from 2006 levels by the year 2020; that the base year is 2006 and not 1990, which all other parties have agreed to—

Environment committee  Parties to the Kyoto Protocol have—

Environment committee  The United States has not made it clear. They've said 2005.

Environment committee  But the informal word in the corridors is that this won't be a showstopper at Copenhagen for them. I'm not sure whether it will for the Canadian government. We'll see. Then there was a very clear enunciation by the Canadian government that as far as reaching that target is conce

Environment committee  The absolute target of 20% reductions from 2006 levels will not be met by international carbon mechanisms. That's right.

Environment committee  Yes. That's what it has said internationally.

Environment committee  I guess Aldyen wants to answer for me, but I'll go on the National Round Table's analysis. They say it's possible, but that you're looking at a cost north of $100 a tonne, as Matthew has indicated as well.

Environment committee  You're looking almost immediately at a price of $100 a tonne, and north of that, if you don't take advantage of the international mechanisms.

Environment committee  I'm sorry if it all sounds a bit too arcane for everybody, but it's whether you're going to go down one negotiating track or two negotiating tracks. What it's about is trying to get major developing economies more engaged in the mitigation issues. The United States is forcing t

Environment committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Ouellet. Yes, I do think it can be a contribution, but I would also like very strongly to agree with Ms. Donnelly that this has to be followed up with a real plan. I think one of the failures we've had over the last 15 years is that we've never come up

Environment committee  Yes, I hope that would be the overall impact of it. Some people in the past have charged—and I don't want to judge one way or the other—that this is just a mechanism to embarrass the current government. I really hope it's not used in that fashion. I really hope we can use this as

Environment committee  I think this can't be resolved only by governments and Parliament; this really has to become a much broader national discussion. We have, for example, really called for a first ministers conference on a national energy strategy for quite a few years now. We need those kinds of di

Environment committee  First of all, I think it would show there is one participant from North America that is willing to be constructively engaged on the issue and that is coming out with specific proposals. More to the point, I was getting at the target that the Prime Minister has in essence signed o