I want to congratulate you for your persistence. Some of your folks have less experience, some have more. I've been looking at all the reports in which these criticisms, particularly on the fisheries habitat, are accepted by government but not acted upon. Some years later, the criticism comes again, is again accepted by government, and still is not acted upon. So it's remarkable that you folks are able to stay at this—particularly in light of the so-called debate earlier today in which my colleagues spent a majority of their time confirming that neither Liberal nor Conservative regimes have been very good at measuring and accounting for greenhouse gas emissions, or at acting on what these emissions require the Canadian government to do. Unlike my colleagues, I don't think most Canadians care so much about distinguishing between Liberal and Conservative governments in this matter. These commitments are Canada's obligations, regardless of how an election distributes the votes.
What disturbs me most now is that the mistakes in the measurement and accountability of greenhouse gas emissions seem as if they are being repeated. I want to connect this to what is happening south of the border. Have you found in your audits that the government has any understanding of the cost to Canadian companies of not having a verifiable greenhouse gas target or accounting? The cap and trade system that's in place in Europe and envisioned by the U.S., in the current legislation, requires companies to be able to verify what they hope to trade on the market. Since Canada does not have a verifiable accounting mechanism, does the government have any assessment of how much the lack of such a mechanism will cost Canadian businesses?