Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Mr. Egan, for your excellent testimony today and for your work. I very much appreciate what you've had to share with us. It underlines the importance of the work we need to do on energy security.
We're now at the conclusion of our study on Gazprom turbines, and in that light, I would like to move a motion that Conservatives have put on notice. The motion is this:
That the committee report to the House that it calls on the Government of Canada to immediately revoke the waiver to Russian sanctions granted for the export of Gazprom turbines.
I'll make a few remarks on that motion and then I look forward to hearing the comments of other members. Again, I want to thank our witness today.
We began this study on the government's decision to grant a waiver to Gazprom in the summer. We did so under the rubric of an emergency meeting. There was strong support to proceed with that study. We heard very clearly strong arguments against the government's decision to waive sanctions on Russia in this particular case.
Concerns were raised, of course, about how waiving sanctions provides an economic benefit to Russia—