Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Ms. Joseph, you piqued my curiosity earlier when you gave the example of Germany. I don't know if you saw the recent article written by the person responsible for the energy transition in Germany. He said that there would be less demand for gas and that, if anything in Canada interested Germany, it was hydrogen and critical minerals. I see that European countries are trying to get involved in the transition and that their industrial strategy is based on it.
At the same time, you talked about energy costs, and I see a strategy being put in place where we are trying to significantly reduce the cost of fossil fuels. For example, we paid $34 billion for a pipeline, which is pretty obscene. In addition, there is a federal strategy for about $80 billion to be invested by the federal government in fossil fuels by 2035.
If we applied that to a world where we supported cleaner forms of energy, their cost might be lower. Do you agree with my premise?