Thank you, Chair.
Minister, the issue of the climate catastrophe that's unfolding and calling out climate denialism are very important. I look at my family. My mom's a MacNeil. Everyone in her village in Cape Breton left. They went to Ontario, they went to Boston and they went out west because there was no permanent, good employment. In my region, whenever there's a new mining project, the planes are full of people from Newfoundland, and they come to work because there's not enough work at home.
We're talking about the potential to create jobs in construction and permanent jobs in Newfoundland and Labrador and Nova Scotia. I think that's above and beyond partisan bickering, and it should be. We're looking at 471,000 solar and wind jobs in the United States, and we have the Conservatives sitting here saying that the Premier of Newfoundland was hoodwinked. They're saying there's no business case. They're saying they're going to oppose it.
I am really concerned, Minister. If we keep waiting, we will lose this opportunity, because that investment is travelling and it's happening. It's not hypothetical; it's on the ground all over the world but here. How do we get these projects off the ground by working with the people of Newfoundland and Labrador and Nova Scotia?