Thank you, Mr. Chair.
My first question is for Mr. Kruger.
You have been making record-breaking profits. The oil sector, the oil and gas companies, raked in $63 billion in 2022 alone. The CEOs around the virtual table today make millions in salaries and bonuses.
You personally made $36.8 million in your first year as CEO. I was just doing a quick calculation with the median income of someone in my community. That would take them about 640 years to make. In that same year, in that same first year, you also laid off 1,500 workers.
We asked Canadians to send us questions that they wanted us to ask the oil and gas CEOs. The question that came up the most often was this: How do you sleep at night when there are climate fires ravaging our country, when people are displaced from their homes, when hundreds die in heat domes, when people are scared to let their kids go out and play because the smoke is too dangerous to breathe? How do you sleep at night?