Thanks, Mr. Chair. In my opening remarks, I talked about Cabinet's crisis climate change plan, consisting of three separate initiatives. We have the climate change strategic framework, the energy strategy, and now carbon pricing. Unfortunately, there are no strong links between the three of them. This bill does not provide for any formal links between the other two parts of the strategy or the plan that this Cabinet has developed. In the absence of that, it is very difficult, I think, for anyone to see and understand how these are linked together and what kind of progress we may be making on some of these as a result of the carbon tax.

I talked numerous times about the need for integrated reporting. There has not been a clear commitment in writing. There is no legal requirement for that to happen as a result of this bill. All we are left with is trying to make a recommendation from the standing committee. I do support this. I will have more to say when we get to the bill itself. Thanks, Mr. Chair.