Thank you so much, Mr. Chair.
I want to go back. I've stayed focused on the environment commissioner's report on this fund. He warned that your government needs to stop going “from failure to failure”. How bad has it been? Since Paris, we've had an increase in emissions, and the other G7 countries are doing better than we are. He says that emissions are going up, even though you've designed these individual programs that are supposed to bring them down.
It's because this program was designed as a fossil fuel subsidy. He said this department did not design this program “to ensure credible and sustainable reductions of greenhouse gas emissions”. What I thought was really powerful was that he said that the companies that got the funds said they were going to use them to increase production. Again, if you were using this as another subsidy for the oil sector, you should have been honest about it.
I'll ask you this: If you're telling the world—and your Prime Minister has told the world—that Canada is going to have an emissions cap, and if we're going to be increasing production, how are you going to be credible that you are actually going to meet your greenhouse gas emissions targets? If you're using the methane targets to increase production, how can we trust you on anything else?