Okay.
I had a question for the deputy minister. I asked the minister several questions about the clean fuel standard and the announcement this morning. We're getting an impression about what's going to happen to our resource sector in Canada, and it doesn't feel like a good one.
I'm up in northern B.C., in northern gas central, where we have some of the biggest gas plays in North America, if not the world. We've always held that if our natural gas makes its way around the world, we can actually reduce the current emissions that are out there, yet we have a current government that seems to just look at Canada and Canada's geographical footprint and seems to want to impede any kind of export of that clean fuel that we're trying to accomplish.
I know that a whole bunch of my constituents go to work every day in the cold and provide natural gas so that we stay warm in the winter. It seems that all this government understands is either to tax it more or to tax people's staying warm in the winter, because I guess for some reason this Liberal government thinks it's optional to stay warm in Canada, when it simply isn't.
Furthermore, on what I said before about shipping and our high standards, it's not only employment standards, but our exploration standards. To ship those around the world, I think is something that Canada needs to do more of, not less.
Let me just read a quote from the Financial Post article that I was quoting for the minister. This is on the clean fuel standard. Maybe you can explain and correct me if I'm wrong. The article says:
The standard will introduce a country-wide carbon credit trading scheme and include harsh per-tonne penalties. Going a step further, Canada will be the first jurisdiction in the world to extend its regulations to cover gaseous fuels, like propane or natural gas....
Maybe you can just explain—I hope I'm not right in this—that the good natural gas and natural resource jobs won't be impacted by this clean fuel standard.