I'm not going to compare this government to former governments. I will say, however, that we are seeing an evisceration of environmental protections across the board. It's not just what I observe as the contravention of the legal obligations under the Net-Zero Emissions Accountability Act. It's also the discussion paper that was recently issued on getting major projects built. It proposes some really significant undermining of some of Canada's longest-standing environmental laws and protections.
This question of the extent to which we're willing to lose this infrastructure is not one that's being put to Canadians. I agree with Dr. Donner that it is critical to transparently communicate to Canadians that this is the decision we're making, this is why and these are the protections that you're going to lose as a result.
We're not having that kind of open conversation. Instead, things are being obfuscated with misleading language, including claims that we will continue to meet our net-zero goal, when that has clearly been put out of reach with recent decisions and with misleading language like “decarbonized oil and gas”, which is something that I hear this government say regularly and is actually just a complete contradiction in terms.