With regard to Mr. van Koeverden's motion, I would like to propose a friendly amendment to point a). After the word “that”, I suggest adding “, with the expected scientific advances,”. The sentence would then read as follows:
a) The federal government is making monumental investments in technologies that, with the expected scientific advances, will reduce emissions in the oil and gas sector;
Here is the reason I am proposing this amendment. From everything I've been able to read on carbon capture and storage, no one—except, perhaps, the oil companies—and no scientists are saying that this method will be effective, that it is a clear solution, that it is imminent. There is indeed a lot of investment in these technologies, but we do not yet know whether this method will be effective in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. But that's why—