Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I'd like to extend my thanks to all the witnesses for taking their valuable time to speak to our committee. As we know, as representatives, we cannot do our jobs without speaking to the people on the front lines, so your being here is very important to our committee's deliberations on this matter.
Mr. Keeley, you've received a lot of questions today. I will not be asking you one, but I did want to thank you because several times you have emphasized that the most important thing we can do is have consumers stop consuming fossil fuels. That is exactly what the price on pollution program is designed to do. It's to incorporate the environmental costs of consuming fuels into the price signal so that people will in fact consume less. I appreciate your endorsement of those programs.
I would like to talk to the Chamber of Commerce because there seems to be some confusion about the impact of capital flows on businesses and what that does, not only to the businesses and their ability to invest but also to share prices.
I think about the example of Reddit and when they shorted GameStop. It was really interesting. The supply and demand, in terms of people investing in certain stocks or disinvesting from certain stocks, actually has a great impact on the economic performance of that company in the stock market, though perhaps not fundamentally. This idea that somehow we cannot make any difference by directing the flow of capital to those companies that are in green pursuit seems to me to be misguided.
I was wondering, Jessica, if you could talk a little bit about the importance of having investment flows come into companies. You mentioned earlier that it has to be very clear to investors what the parameters are. Obviously, that is so they feel comfortable investing in these companies.
What is the importance to your membership of having investment in these green and transitional companies?