That is the opposite of the understanding of the Parliamentary Budget Officer. So far he has been much more accurate in predicting your financial decisions and their consequences than you.
Mr. Minister, I'm going to quote here from Reuters news, which says, “China restarted construction on more than [50,000 megawatts] of suspended coal-fired power plants last year”. Further, the article goes on to say that satellite images show China has “quietly resumed” construction in 2018 on dozens of previously shelved plants, making it a “glaring exception to the global decline” of coal use.
Did you get any commitments from China that it would stop building coal-fired plants when you handed over a quarter of a billion Canadian tax dollars to the China-controlled Asian infrastructure bank, yes or no?