I'd like to thank the witnesses for being here today.
Mr. Pineault, I'm very happy to see that you could come today, in spite of the problems we had last week. In your opening address, you gave a good explanation of the diverting issue by talking about carbon capture, utilization and storage, or CCUS, the effect of which would have been to slow down the transition and inflate costs.
If the government provides funding that is supposed to be combatting climate change, but instead supports the technologies that are harmful to this effort, can we conclude that what we have are in fact camouflaged subsidies to fossil fuels?