When we talk about Canada's need to reduce GHGs why do we not discuss this country's carbon absorption capacity, one of our great potential competitive strengths? Given our forests and geographic size, measured on this basis our CO2 offset potential is vast. The Global Carbon Project reported in 2014 that, of the 36bn tonnes of CO2 emissions produced by humans, 37% of this was absorbed by land. On this basis Canada may already be absorbing 20-30% more CO2 than we emit. Surely this factor should be part of any climate strategy equation? But it is not. If you are worried about deforestation in countries like DRC, Brazil, Russia then you need to consider ways of incentivising them to preserve what they have.  Providing them with tradeable carbon credits based on their CO2 absorbative capacity strikes me, at least on an initial view, as a viable alternative to what our PM and others are proposing.