I would like to continue my remarks by giving you a sense of the situation in Canada.
An article in Le Devoir reported that 92 wells were problematic, according to a government report published in 2023. It's really a problem across the country.
I will not sit here and somehow have someone say that this is absolutely A-okay, that we should be having this and that we should be debating and voting on this motion and that it's absolutely fine because the motion itself includes all of Alberta. The preamble, which is the first thing that people are going to see, is absolutely a full attack on my province and on hard-working people.
The part that really frustrates me is that there weren't conversations and work during the pandemic trying to make sure that government money was being spent appropriately and that it wasn't going to groups like GC Strategies and all kinds of consultants who were getting rich claiming to be in the indigenous procurement space. Some of this is really important.
The fact that the government is now putting really inflammatory language in their preambles critiquing the Government of Alberta for properly spending money to clean up these wells and not having a full conversation is very frustrating but—