Many of those major energy producers certainly don't have anywhere near the environmental standards, regulations, compliance, enforcement, performance, or transparency that Canada does.
In the suite of policy options available to governments around this issue of emissions, you probably know the Liberals have recommended upstream emissions assessments as a condition to pipeline approvals in Canada. I wonder if the Liberals are also going to move to apply that same condition to major infrastructure in other sectors, as well as to mining, manufacturing, transportation, construction of renewable alternative energies, if the priority is overall emissions reduction.
It seems to me that if they are emphasizing this upstream emissions condition on one piece of major infrastructure and one sector, then I'm sure I look forward to their being consistent and applying that to all the sectors and all major infrastructure. I don't actually look forward to it. I think it's problematic, but I'm sure they will be interested in being consistent.
Earlier this year I know your organization published a paper entitled “Shaping the Canadian Low-Carbon Economy”. I just want to read out a section and then ask you to comment on it.
You said, “The production of Canadian oil is also rising, even as production from renewable energy sources is growing. Canada’s hydrocarbon producers are working hard to reduce the energy they use to produce and process their product, thereby reshaping the sector’s carbon emissions footprint.”