Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'm extremely pleased to be back and to see all of my colleagues here. I hope all of you had a safe summer. We certainly were affected by the burning in the Far North and the communities that were forced into evacuation. We saw fires right across North America and children who couldn't go out to play. Coming into Ottawa in the summer was a scene out of a nightmare. I raise this because I think it's really important that we get our committee focused on this.
To that end, Mr. Chair, I have brought forward a motion asking Mr. Kruger, the CEO of Suncor, to come to testify. I was very surprised by his comment that the urgent issue for Suncor was to make as much money as possible. This is a company that's made $70 billion in profits in two years. We've seen that these companies are putting the brakes on transition spending with no new investment in reducing emissions, yet they are regularly coming to Ottawa to look for us, the Canadian taxpayer, to give them money to deal with these costs.
I have the motion. We can debate it now or I could debate it at the end, but I think it's really important that we invite Mr. Kruger to come forward to explain whether or not Suncor is going to be a good corporate citizen at a time when we need all hands on deck to deal with the urgency of a burning planet.