I want to explain why I think that this is particularly important in this moment.
As we all know, the time to pass supp Bs through the House will be coming up. We have an issue with how things have been going in the House of Commons with this ongoing privilege motion that's been brought forward by the Conservatives and has been intentionally holding down the time we have in the House of Commons. It's preventing us from getting to these important things.
The reason I mention it is that we need to actually go on with the process right now to be able to pass our supplementary estimates (B). That's how we will be able to flow the funding that we need for so many of the programs that are so important to our communities and to the country, especially when we're talking about issues of natural resources. Having the minister come here is part of that process that we need to see happen.
Among the things that we're not going to be able to fund if we don't have these supplementary estimates (B) passed, one is the extra funding that goes to critical minerals infrastructure, which is something that's important to people right around this table. We need to be able to have the minister come and speak to that, about why it's so important that we have more funding go towards critical minerals and about what would happen if the Conservatives succeed in blocking us in the House of Commons and preventing us from moving forward with the important work that we have in front of us.
Critical minerals is one important piece of that. We know that when we're talking about a lot of the investments that have been happening in my home province of Ontario, such as in batteries and in auto manufacturing, a lot of the businesses are looking to relocate what they're doing to my home province and looking to create really good-paying jobs in my home province because they know we have critical minerals that are accessible. That's one of Canada's strengths, going forward, in the world economy as we know it.
I think it would be really important for us to be able to have the Minister of Energy and Natural Resources come and speak to that piece of the policy, and that's why we need to see it move forward. It would give us a better sense of what the impact would be if the Conservatives actually do manage to continue to hold the House of Commons hostage and prevent us from being able to move forward with the work we're doing.
Another really important piece, particularly when we talk about the last study we were working on—clean electricity—is that Supplementary Estimates (B) committee documents also have funding that goes to the SREP. That is one of the really important funding sources for a lot of the work happening on cleaner electricity. I see it landing in communities right across the country. It's helping them to support clean electricity work. We've just finished doing an entire study that shows us why it's so important and what we need to do. We're also working towards clean electricity regulations. We've seen a draft of those already.
How do we get there? We need to make sure, if we want to have a clean electrical grid, that we are doing the important work to get there. Seeing the funding for the SREP slowed down is a problem on that. We can't have that happen. We know it's what people in different communities that we represent will want to see us do. They want to see this funding come through. It helps us to move forward. It's a really popular program, and a challenge we're facing right now is with the holdup. I think it is really important that we have the minister come and speak to it.
Another piece that's going to be important and that has Supplementary Estimates (B) funding noted in committee documents is the sustainable jobs secretariat. We spent a lot of time around this table talking about sustainable jobs. There were some very long nights as we moved forward on that. As a person who's plant-based, I always say that “meat on the bones” is a really strange term for me to be using, but there you go. We need to—