Mr. Chair, these are policy decisions. But I would like to add two things.
It's not up to me to decide whether we are moving on a sustainable path or not in Canada. But I will remind you that any new policy or program developed by the federal government should go through what we call a strategic environmental assessment, which means that the bureaucrats, before they design the policy or the strategy or the program, should look at the environmental impact, the social impact, and the economic impact and take the best decision. This analysis should be made available publicly so that people will be able to judge what work was done before the decision was made and judge it on the merits.
But as you know, my job is to give you the information, and you are the ones who then make the judgment.