Thank you, Madam Chair.
I have to follow along with Mr. Cullen. I believe it's very important, and some of his statements in his motion, “national and regional trends and projects”, “carbon pricing methodologies” that are out there....
You're saying your government wants to look at all of these different things. I think you're focusing more on the CETA, and those are projects I don't think we can get done in this sitting.
I think we can help tremendously through the government of the day by meeting with the different groups that are doing the best practices out there. Whether it's in park conservation, whether it's in the oil and gas sector, what are some of the practices that are happening where they're already making great carbon footprints out there? What is happening out there? We don't know exactly what everybody's doing, and I think this is a golden opportunity.
In some of the recommendations made—your number one, Mr. Amos, and Mr. Cullen's, and Mr. Fast's—and looking at some of this technology, we might be running down the wrong path not knowing that a lot of that good stuff is already being done in very simple terms. Maybe we have failed as a government to not recognize some of those great greenhouse gas initiatives that have been done by different organizations.
We should be looking at them and helping to make sure that this information is fed to your government, which is going to be making the regulations to bring our greenhouse gases down and make us a leader in the world. We already know we're leaders in the world. I think we do a damn good job in this country, and industry does a damn good job.
I blame industry, and I'll tell this to their faces every time I meet them. They have not done a good enough job to tell the public what they do. I think it's part of our responsibility. As this committee, we have some great ideas here to bring forward and to take a look and see where we can take some of that technology, that knowledge and expertise out there, and come up with a report to show the government, “Hey, these are some of the things, and maybe you don't want to waste all your time because we're doing really well here. We can use this to benefit and to show the world that we're leaders in these areas.”
I feel that is where our mandate is going. I like Mr. Amos' number one there, and I like the other two. I think that we need to study those areas, but if we want to try to change one of the acts, I don't think we have enough time now to honestly get that done. Maybe for next year when we all come back and we start into a new term on it. But I think it's very crucial right now that we give you more tools and knowledge in which to come up with the good regulations that are going to show that Canada is leading in greenhouse gas.
Thank you.