Thank you, Chair.
This is for the IISD and Mr. Cosbey.
You published a 2021 report, “Federal Fossil Fuel Subsidies in Canada”. In that report, you listed the following as fossil fuel subsidies: $6 million for “Indigenous Natural Resource Partnerships”, $2.37 million for a “diesel generating station” in a northern Ontario community and various “Indigenous Services Canada investments in natural gas and diesel projects and electricity price support for Indigenous communities”.
We've heard at this committee that these investments are very important to some communities. However, you also stated in your report that “fossil fuel subsidies are not consistent with net-zero commitments”.
Do you see any concern with the impact that eliminating these investments, which you have defined as subsidies, will have on Canadians in the name of net zero?