Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, gentlemen, for your thorough presentations. You're pretty deft at answering the various questions.
I'm looking, Mr. Kaufman, at page 11 of your deck, “Next Steps”: “Clear signal from the federal government that CCS is part of the Canadian strategy”. Fair enough.
I then go on to read “further evaluation and planning”, “collaboration”, “support in public awareness”, none of which, with respect, reflect to me a clear signal from the federal government.
You've indicated at page 7 that “CCS should not be mandated.” My question to you is, number one, why should it not be mandated so that we can terminate the cajoling and the coaxing of industry and just force them to do something? Or, in the absence of mandating carbon capture and storage, why not impose a carbon tax to accelerate the reduction of emissions of greenhouse gas?