Thank you very much, Mr. Chair, and thank you to the committee members for allowing me this opportunity to speak to this motion.
One of the key things I want to mention is what is happening in Europe and the reasons that the decision by the Canadian government to not put its full force behind our liquid natural gas resources is so critical.
A summer ago, I was in Birmingham, England, with the OSCE, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. We had an opportunity to speak with political people from all over Europe, Canada and the United States. What that organization does.... We spoke about food security, energy security, and certainly, in that case, what was taking place in Ukraine.
We know what the political leadership always says we're doing, which is that we want to make sure we're going as green as fast as we possibly can. We want to hit net zero. We're going to do all of those sorts of things. The only problem is that this isn't the reality on the ground. That was made completely obvious.
One of the motions that Canada put forth was on transition. It suggested that we make changes so that oil and gas development in Canada is minimized. I felt that was going completely in the wrong direction and against some of the people who have spoken here today. They're talking about whether or not we are producing our hydrocarbons in an environmentally friendly way, and of course it's obvious that we are. We know that as far as oil and gas is concerned, we are at 6% or 8%, I believe, lower emissions per unit of energy now than we were a number of years ago. We know that as far as methane is concerned, there have been massive improvements and that we are leading in the world. I think that's a critical part of it.
That becomes one of the issues we need to keep in mind. Yes, political leadership has already bought in. They have their signatures at the bottom of certain environmental agreements, so they are going to continue, as we do, to suggest it's the only way to go. However, that's not how business sees it.
Here's one of the situations that occurred. Because Germany can't get the supply of gas it needs from Russia, it is looking at different ways of getting energy. It is ramping up—