Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Ms. Wright, I can understand the answers you have given Mr. McGuinty, but you do have regulatory and fiscal tools available to you. That is the reality. The principle of ecoconditionality exists. I do not know if you are familiar with it, but it involves requiring industry to comply with a number of conditions prior to providing assistance. You can talk about a moratorium and licences because the Province of Alberta has jurisdiction over them, but bear in mind that between 1996 and 2002, the federal government gave the oil industry $1.2 billion which contributed to increasing greenhouse gas emissions and environmental degradation. That represents $200 million per year for one industry.
In light of the federal funding for this industry which is not helping improve the environment, you must surely have a strategic environmental assessment. Does this industry meet the environmental assessment criteria?