Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to all the witnesses who are here today from the three departments to answer our questions on the elimination of fossil fuel subsidies.
I really want to address some of the international commitments we have made and have not made regarding eliminating fossil fuel subsidies, to better understand why our government has done some things and not others, and what progress we're making on that.
I'd like to ask you about two in particular, and I'm not sure who the best person is to respond. The first is the statement on international public support for the clean energy transition, which came from COP16. As I understand it, we are a signatory, one of the approximately 40 countries that signed on to that agreement.
The second one is the World Trade Organization statement on fossil fuel subsidies, which to me seemed very similar in some respects, yet I believe Canada, at least when I last looked, had not signed on to it. I'm not sure if we have now or if we had any particular plans to sign on to it.
I wonder if you could just speak a little bit about the role that the statement on international public support for clean energy that we signed plays in ending subsidies to the fossil fuel sector, and then I'll follow up with you on the other one. Thank you.