Thank you, Chair.
We welcome this amendment. The issue in clause 6 that is being addressed is something that has been lacking in previous initiatives from the government, which is keeping Canadians and Parliament up to speed on where our targets are, what our goals are.
A lot of long-term promises are made within government legislation, back-ended financing deals that go out six years and beyond. The need to have a steady, consistent track with our greenhouse gas reductions is essential. This amendment seeks to embed within those estimations some measurement of what other countries are putting into their efforts and engaging Canada, I hope, deeper into the solutions that are out there.
I think for too long in this country we have relied simply upon our own initiative and intelligence to meet greenhouse gas emission challenges and not looked overseas and not looked to other countries, who are now far outpacing our country when it comes to energy efficiency and the like.
We think this is a good amendment to clause 6, and we look forward to its passage.