Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I have a fairly brief question predicated by a very brief comment to Professor Lee. I'd like to ask you some questions, but I'd be doing that for sheer political purposes only, because everything you said today is exactly what I said in my budget speech, including the real retirement and the fact that the old age security was not science based as this government....
My question is actually for Ms. Bak.
We've had several green outfits come before this committee that have made a statement that I want to pursue just very briefly. It's a blanket statement—sort of like “the sun comes up in the east”—that there's a $3-billion annual subsidy provided to the fossil fuel industry. I see here in my favourite Google website that it says a subsidy is a sum of money granted by the government or a public body to assist an industry or business so that the price of a commodity or service may remain low or competitive.
Can you give me three or four examples of something that would fit that description that is in that statement you made today? Because if you can't give me examples, I'd like to know if that's something that is fair to continue to say. I'm not talking about tax incentives. I'm talking about exactly what Google says a subsidy is, a handout of government money to the oil industry.
So give me two or three examples.