Thank you, Madam Chair.
Back in 2003, the then competition commissioner came to this committee and said that they didn't have the proper supports necessary to investigate price gouging in the gasoline industry. From that, we had hearings from 2003 to 2005. We had a report that was commissioned, and eventually a petroleum monitoring agency was announced in the dying days of the Paul Martin government, and after that it wasn't funded by the following Harper administration.
As nothing has changed in that scenario, my question for you today is, do you have enough powers to successfully investigate potential price gouging for the petroleum industry, especially when it comes to retail in upstream and downstream investigations?
In the United States, they have some more robust laws with regard to disclosing market purchasing. Would that not protect Canadian consumers a little bit better than our current situation?