Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Earlier I spoke about how the Liberal government is looking through rose-coloured glasses. Then, I talked about the fact that it was focusing on measures that do not yet exist. Now, I would like to talk about the fact that it is focusing on technologies that do not exist.
Report 6 states the following, and I quote: “The models assumed that some of the technologies required to reduce emissions would soon be available. For example, the modelling results suggested that carbon capture and storage facilities would be built and would avoid 27 [megatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent] of emissions annually by 2030.” I would like everyone to remember that.
Experts told the government that carbon capture and storage technologies were inadequate and that it should not rely on them. Such technologies are expensive and ineffective. Perhaps they will be more effective in 10 or 15 years, but that is not the case right now. These experts came and spoke to us in committee. Their findings were picked up by newspapers. Dozens of scientists wrote to the minister responsible and the Prime Minister's office. The Bloc Québécois has been reminding the government of this for two years, and yet the government still decided to give billions of dollars to oil companies to develop this technology, rather than investing in renewable energy. By 2035, the government will have given oil companies $83 billion, but we are supposed to meet our climate target by 2030. Obviously, things are not going well at all.
Mr. Ngan or Ms. O'Brien, could you tell us how the government was able to count these reductions in the 2030 emissions reduction plan despite all the warnings from scientists? These technologies are still in the early stages of development and, right now, they are expensive and ineffective. Even if they did exist, such facilities could never be put into service in such a way as to meet the 2030 projections.
How could the government do that?