Thank you, Mr. Chair.
In the past, I've tried to see if we could amend things to get them passed here and get them done. I'm going to look at this. In the same line, and with a couple of words to that.... Perhaps if we concluded the first line, “Given that governments have an economic and social incentive to act on climate change”, and then moved to the final line, “That the committee allocate no less than two meetings to study the topic of industrial carbon pricing” and so forth, we would get rid of some of the things in there that are causing some of the debate.
Even one of those lines in there right now, with the Liberal Party saying that “climate change could lead to devastating impacts”.... I would argue that it has led to that. I could get into that. I could add a line like, “Given that the Liberal Party of Canada, as government, made the single largest economic investment in carbon pollution in buying a leaky pipeline that continues to expand emissions and increase debt and free market manipulation.” I mean, I could do that kind of stuff, too.
I'm trying to figure out whether there's actually a sincere interest to try to see if we're even doing it.
I would suggest that if we could keep the first line and get the specifics of the other stuff out, which they could raise during testimony with the witnesses who are here, I don't know whether that would get us off to the point where we could actually get this done.