Thank you.
Thanks to all the witnesses here today.
I'll start by echoing what Monsieur Simard said in that I'm disappointed in the line of questioning that Mr. McLean took. It seems that Conservatives are really desperately trying to find ways that this transition cannot work, when the science is telling us that we must find ways to make it work. It would seem there are challenges, but there are also these immense opportunities for us that we've been talking about.
I'd like to let Mr. Breton continue on that theme by talking about.... You cited statistics on how many, how fast the shift to electric vehicles will be happening. I read a KPMG report that said 70% of Canadians said their next vehicle would be an electric vehicle.
I think this is happening faster than most people think. As you say, as that proceeds, jobs will be lost in the oil sector, but 500,000 jobs could be created in the clean energy sector in mining, assembly, construction.
I was wondering if you could go into more detail on what we need to do to get those workers ready. How much training will be needed? A lot of construction work is probably fairly transferable. In mining, I assume those jobs are transferable, but what kind of training do we need?