Well, you get the idea.
We've spent many very long nights in this place working on the Canadian Sustainable Jobs Act. I think it was something that was very important for us to do. Now we need to have the funding go through for the Sustainable Jobs Secretariat. That's going to require the supplementary estimates (B) to go through.
Again, we're in a moment where the Conservatives have been holding up all work in the House of Commons. This means that we haven't passed supplementary estimates (B) yet. Having the minister come here will help us better understand what could happen if they don't come through, and what the impacts will be on all of our communities and on our work on these issues—sustainable jobs, a clean electrical grid, our critical minerals infrastructure and things like that. It's also a chance for us to try to move the process forward.
That's what I think is so important in this moment. We have one month left here together. With one month left together, we can get a whole lot done. We should be getting a whole lot done. Unfortunately, we haven't been at a point to move things forward. I'm really hoping that after hearing the minister, even the Conservatives will have a chance to think a little about whether they want to change what's happening in the House of Commons and see the funding come through to all of our provinces, with all of this work that's happening. It will also support sustainable jobs and try to build the economy of the future for our country. We are all facing a very special moment right now, in terms of being able to do that.
I think those are a few important pieces for us to consider as we go forward. It's been frustrating, over the past many weeks in the House of Commons, to not get a lot of the work done that we would normally do. I know that when my community sent me here, it was not to listen to an extended privilege debate in the House of Commons day after day. They want to see us pass the legislation that we need to pass. They also want to see us make sure the programs we said we would do get the funding they need so they can move forward. There's no benefit to the extended delay we're seeing right now. It's just slowing us down.
With that piece in mind, I brought in this motion so we would at least have a chance for Minister Wilkinson to come and provide us with extra details. In light of the study we had done on clean electricity and beyond talking about the importance of making sure the funding actually flows through on SREP, I think this would be a chance for him to highlight a little more how it fits into everything else we are doing on electricity.
I think it was budget 2023 that had a pyramid that I thought was very helpful. It laid out everything we're doing on electricity. At the base, you have the regulatory side and carbon pricing. Then you have the next layer up. It has different funding sources through the CIB—the Canada Infrastructure Bank—and that kind of thing.