Thank you.
I want to thank my colleague for moving this motion, because given all the events that have gone on around the world in the last couple of weeks, this is of utmost importance. There's a sense of urgency that I think everyone around this table would agree needs to be met. It's definitely within the purview of our committee as it's dealing with the development of natural resources within our country. It's definitely federal policy that has prevented a lot of this. Decisions at the federal level have blocked and stopped LNG production in Canada for the last eight years.
The way I look at it, not only do we have the conflict that's going on, and my colleague laid that out very well, but let's also look at the context of the study we have here today. Let's look at that context as well. We know what the rest of the world is looking for: They're looking for clean, reliable energy. We know that Canada has that. We produce that.
We've heard from witnesses previously that the Canadian grid is already 84% non-emitting or renewable. The Americans are only at 40%. The rest of the world would love to have what we already have. We have this resource that's just sitting here that the rest of the world is looking for so that they can get to a place where we're already at. Why we're not developing it and getting it out there to these folks is absolutely beyond me. Getting to this motion as quickly as we possibly can, I think, is of complete importance.
Again, let's get back to the conflict at hand here. We're talking about the fact that a country that is housing terrorists, housing the head of Hamas, is the one that is going to be providing the world with LNG. The Prime Minister said there was no business case. Well, guess what? Qatar found the business case, and it's using it to fund terrorism. That's what we're faced with. That's what we're seeing. That's what we're dealing with here now. That's why this motion is of utmost importance, and we should be dealing with it.