This is exactly the subject of an environmental petition that was submitted to our office in October 2005. The petitioners included Charles Caccia, Friends of the Earth, and the Pembina Institute, and they were represented by the Sierra Legal Defence Fund. The issue was the subsidies to the oil and gas industry and the federal efforts to address climate change—and how in fact that was reconciled.
We discussed the petition, and the response to the petition, on page 3 of chapter 5, “Environmental Petitions”.
You can certainly find the petition and the response to the petition on our website, if you're interested. Those questions were posed by the petitioners, and responses were provided by the Ministers of Finance, Natural Resources Canada, Environment Canada, and Industry Canada.