Thank you for that.
I ask this because I come from a mining town. Five minutes from my house is the most beautiful lake you'll ever see. I go to it every day. It has been completely poisoned. It may be another hundred years before it's not poisoned, because it was once considered okay to just dump cyanide and mercury. We have regulations to stop that. I know the mining companies howled in outrage that they had to do it, but our waters and our lakes are protected.
I'll turn now to Mr. Cosbey in terms of the issue of subsidies, because the environment commissioner was very concerned that this program had been used as a fossil fuel subsidy. He said that in terms of getting to where we need to go, using programs that we cannot verify are actually going to get us there is putting us in the wrong direction.
What do you have to say in terms of this? We've been told that under the Liberal government there has been $100 billion in subsidies in the last five years to the oil and gas sector, and emissions have risen. Are we getting where we need to go by just giving more money without strings attached?