Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you for being here, Ms. Jackson. Thank you to our other guests for being here virtually.
I think it has been a great discussion. We've been in the weeds a lot, which is awesome to understand some of the details. However, I wanted to move back a bit, because it's been suggested by the leader of one of our parties that investing in clean tech alone will solve the climate crisis and that we don't need a price on pollution and we don't need regulation or anything else. All we need, really, is to increase clean tech.
While I agree that clean tech is vital for reaching net zero, I remember my grandmother always saying to me that necessity is the mother of invention. I'm wondering whether our witnesses today could comment on the supply and demand side balance between having the price on pollution and investing in clean tech.
What signal does it send to investors in clean tech when people hear questioning on whether a price on pollution or some of these regulations or mandates are necessary? What kind of impact does that have in this arena?