Our government continued to support the company, which has helped reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Canada's oil sands region. As we know, this area of the world has the highest environmental standards. We can be proud of the Canadian oil produced in our country, by people from our country. The environmental footprint of the oil is being reduced by workers across Canada, including people in my constituency.
Mr. Leclerc and Mr. Béland, I would like to delve deeper into the issue of companies.
In your opinion, how can a company succeed when it's trying to reduce its environmental footprint while competing with a company based in Asia, for example, which is at the other end of the world and which has environmental obligations that are completely different from the obligations that Canadian entrepreneurs are asked to meet in order to have a good ecological footprint? I used the word “asked” here rather than “required,” since it's not a stick.