Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I know it's the view of at least the vast majority of the members of this committee that you have been more than reasonable, more than fair. Certainly I've been serving on this committee since September, and you've always been fair. I need to say that.
Beyond that, I will put questions to the officials on the matters at hand, but since the issue of climate change has already been raised, I know my colleague opposite put forward some perspectives that are now on the record, and I want to do the same. Let me read into the record the following quote:
For 25 years countless people have come to the UN climate conferences begging our world leaders to stop emissions and clearly that has not worked as emissions are continuing to rise. So I will not beg the world leaders to care for our future. I will instead let them know change is coming whether they like it or not.
Since our leaders are behaving like children, we will have to take the responsibility they should have taken long ago. We have to understand what the older generation has dealt to us, what mess they have created that we have to clean up and live with. We have to make our voices heard.
That quote comes from Greta Thunberg, who is 15 years old. I think that view needs to be put on the record. She is a Swedish teenager. Sweden, long ago, as you know, Mr. Chair, put in place a price on pollution, and its economy is doing remarkably well. In fact, there are many studies that indicate its economy is doing so well precisely because it has put a price on pollution, which has acted as an incentive for innovation and has helped Sweden really combat the issue of climate change and become a world leader in that regard. Canada is seeking to do the same.
On what should be a non-partisan issue, we continue to see fearmongering from the opposition around the issue of our time, which is climate change. In fact, I would point my honourable colleague, and indeed his party leader and in fact the entire party, to not any Liberal or NDPer or member of the Green Party but to Preston Manning, who is well on the record. In fact, he's written numerous op-eds talking about how a price on pollution is necessary to combat climate change. Once and for all, I hope we can move forward in a meaningful way both at this committee and in general terms to dealing with the issue of climate change, because fearmongering hasn't gotten us very far at all.
I do want to live up to my promise to stay on the issue of the estimates. In fact, I'd like to go back to what we discussed before, which is the whole issue of knowledge sharing and the global knowledge sharing platform.
Mr. Hamilton, what countries will Canada be working with in this regard? Where are we planning on forging partnerships, exactly?