All right, so much for that.
In our unanimous report on conservation, our committee recommended that Canada lead an effort to determine the capacity of Canada's natural spaces to release and sequester carbon, and to evaluate the potential for increasing the capacity to sequester carbon. What we learned is that our scientists don't actually know what role our natural environment plays in carbon sequestration, be it agriculture, our vast wetlands, oceans, or forests.
I look at my own riding of Yellowhead. We're doing an experiment right now to grow industrial hemp. We are planting 5,000 acres this first year in conjunction with the province. Some of the scientists I've been talking to in my region tell me that hemp-growing sequesters five times as much carbon as a boreal forest. Also, the pan-Canadian framework on clean growth and climate change suggests that carbon sinks are a potential means of combatting climate change.
I'm wondering, besides carbon taxing, whether your department has put any resources forward to conduct the integral scientific work that needs to be done. What is your future plan in relation to that? I think that's very important when we're looking at our overall world picture.