It's a very good question, Mr. Erskine-Smith. I know of your good work. I see a streak in you that I might have seen in myself 20 or 30 years ago, so hats off to you. You're on the right committee.
My constituents would have raised issues at the time of why you'd see increased taxes in the midst of a pandemic, which unfortunately the government did not just once, but twice. I think we have to deal with these crises as they come, but we also have to plan the long term in terms of where we want to be. Yogi Berra put it very well...or to use a Jean Chrétien expression, if you don't know where you're going, chances are you're going to wind up somewhere else.
I think in the context of [Technical difficulty—Editor] what are the deliverables of this federal government, of our Parliament, in terms of its ability to address the issue at hand? We've spent a considerable amount of time talking about green energy and green ideas for the future. I think they're important, but I also think they tend to lose a lot of people—