Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses.
I would encourage the witnesses to take a look at the testimony we received last night from three of the panellists who presented on the IPCC reports. I think it's actually the latest condemnation of the economic model we've driven forward in the last 100 years. They're very conservative estimates by these 2,300 climatologists, but the results of the studies are that action is needed and it's needed urgently.
Yet when I heard some of the testimony today, it felt as if we have the luxury of time. We can develop carbon sequestration over time. There are estimates of $60 per tonne by some within the industry and $30 per tonne by some outside the industry.
Mr. Bramley, you spoke to this recently.
I recently had an argument with the Premier of Alberta because he said Alberta had been the most aggressive when it came to seizing and controlling emissions of CO2, and he claimed a 19% energy efficiency improvement over 1990 levels. Alberta's CO2 emissions went up nearly 40% while those improvements were being made.
How intellectually honest is it to suggest you're being aggressive in reducing emissions when emissions have gone up almost 40%?