Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you, Minister, for being here.
I want to start out by asking questions about Canada's competitiveness and the ability to attract foreign investment. I've spoken about this at this committee and to you as well. Certainly, internationally, and definitely in Europe, they're leading the way when it comes to climate-related financing, so I was really happy to see the announcement of an expert panel, with climate financing announced as the first step. I was also happy to see that my home province of Ontario has actually moved forward to have climate risk investment disclosures.
My question is somewhat twofold. One, how are you working with the provinces and territories, and with the expert panel, on how to determine some of these climate policies around finance? Two, how does that then make us more competitive, especially when we know that other countries are somewhat ahead or really moving along in this regard?