Then my question is that if this is true, the OECD and other groups that we belong to have long recommended that subsidies to the oil sector be removed from federal budgets. This new Canadian government has agreed to that. They agreed to it in the last election. How could it possibly pass through an environmental assessment lens while at the same time as that budget was being drafted the Prime Minister was in Paris making very ambitious targets and commitments to the world?
On April 14th, 2016. See this statement in context.