Thank you, Mr. Chair.
My questions will be, in addition to the commissioner, for Nicole Côté and Dany Drouin.
I'll start with a quick question for Mr. DeMarco.
I know today's NIR is not precisely the reason you're here, but there seems to be a lot of conversation about it. I find the news quite encouraging, as somebody who cares about reducing our emissions. Some of the headlines today indicated that, and some suggested, as we all expected, that emissions are up a little bit from 2021.
However, taking a pragmatic approach to this, we all expected emissions to come up a little bit postpandemic. There really is an elephant in the room when you're reading that report because all of those emissions increases since 1997.... The minister said in the House today that emissions have never been lower in this country as long as Connor McDavid has been alive or since Google.com was registered as a domain name. So 1997 is a long time ago. Indeed, emissions have gone up a lot since then, but they've almost entirely been in Alberta, from the oil sands, almost entirely from the production of oil and gas. It's time that we look at that and actually reflect on the fact that our emissions are going up because of the way that we produce oil and gas in this country.
We need direction on that, but I would appreciate your reflection on other emissions-producing sectors that need to change their old habits, and whether you're encouraged or discouraged by today's news that it's been 25 years since they've been this low.