Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'm going to begin by noting that Minister Freeland is not appearing today, as she said she would many weeks ago. It's been many months since she was asked by this committee to appear on the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.
I want to put on the public record the profound disappointment on the Conservative side that she has chosen to not be here again when she would have known ahead of time that she expected to be somewhere else and did not provide a new date on which she would appear to testify before the committee about exactly what's going on with Canada's participation in the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.
Mr. Dade, I'm going to have to ask you to excoriate the government on LNG, because back in December 2022, you wrote an opinion piece with the CEO of the foundation, Gary Mar, in which you said, “From a western Canadian perspective, there are two major misses in the strategy. There is no mention of exporting LNG.” You went on to say, “Instead, the strategy pivots to renewables and hydrogen.”
Others have excoriated the government. I have to give you a chance, as a westerner, to excoriate the government here as well.