Thank you.
I'm really pleased to hear you talk about job retention and the economic development issues, but when the department set up this fund, job retention was not part of the assessment criteria. So again, if you want to give $134 million to big oil, then just say it. Why not say that this is a subsidy? When the environment commissioner asked your officials for an explanation, they said their priority was the economic needs of the oil companies. That's pretty straightforward.
Why not just come here and say, “Listen, it was COVID and our Liberal member for Calgary needed to have jobs protected, so we wanted to hire people in the oil sector”? Why didn't you just say that? Why did you come here and claim you were actually reducing methane, when you don't have any proof that you did that, because you weren't tracking it? That's what the environment commissioner told us. He said you were not looking at these issues.