However, in the previous year, your government met with oil and gas lobbyists, on average, five times a day. We've seen, time and time again, that your government has then watered down policies. It was reported, or leaked to The Globe and Mail, that your finance minister was considering an excess profits tax before the last budget and then backed down in the face of lobbying by CAPP, by the big oil and gas companies.
You came to be an expert witness here at the environment committee in 2006. I imagine at that time you might have understood and might have believed that the unfettered access, the constant lobbying from the oil and gas sector, has an impact here on bureaucrats and on politicians. It's surprising to me, now that you are a minister, that you don't see that same influence happening in your government.