Thank you so much.
I want to say a warm welcome to you, Minister, for being here, and a welcome to both of your officials who have accompanied you. We very much appreciate your opening comments.
As you may know, in my riding of Davenport, climate change is probably one of the top two issues that I heard at the doors during the election. They love that we spent or have committed $63 billion in terms of tackling climate change. They love the 50 climate actions that we have under way. They're really happy with a lot of the promises that we've made around moving to net zero by 2050 and the many other platform promises that we have, but they want us to be even more aggressive and go even faster.
One of the things we talk about in Davenport is systemic change. It's the fact that if we're really seriously going to make the progress we need to make to reach our Paris accord targets, the way we spend money has to change.
I asked this question to officials the other day, but I wanted to pose it to you as well. It's related to federal government spending and a climate lens. To what extent are federal budget 2020 decisions being made based on their impact on climate change? How is it that we're asking ourselves, as we're making decisions around the federal budget 2020, whether these decisions are leading Canada to be more sustainable? Are they leading us to moving toward achieving our Paris accord targets? Are they actually leading us to a low-carbon economy?