Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I listened to my colleague Mr. Schiefke's plea about the tough steps we will have to take to make the necessary energy transition. I am always a bit dumbfounded by the naïveté of my Liberal colleagues.
Between 2018 and 2024, the Liberal government invested $34 billion, that's right, $34 billion, in a single oil and gas project, a pipeline. As for the ambitious plan that's been tabled for electrification in general, it calls for an investment of $40 billion by 2035. Let's imagine that an extraterrestrial has just landed here and is told that we support the energy transition, but that we invested $34 billion over six years from 2018 to 2024 in a single oil and gas initiative, whereas the project that's being touted as ambitious calls for a $40 billion investment by 2035. Moreover, this so-called ambitious project has money to fund carbon capture strategies in the oil and gas sector. I don't want to be rude to Mr. Schiefke, but if I were him, I wouldn't be lecturing anybody.
I'll wrap up with a quick remark. In the short term, what can we do to strengthen and solidify our electrical grid?
I would ask each of you to give a brief answer.