Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Minister Guilbeault. You seem like you belong at our committee, and we'll have a permanent seat for you. We'd love to have you come, so we could ask you all manner of questions.
On the issue of the transition, five years ago, it seemed it was hopeful, and there were a bunch of ideas. The fact that it has moved so fast is really, I think, the surprising factor. The Biden administration is now going to have twice the solar capacity by 2030 than was predicted three years ago. The wind capacity will be 43% higher. This is what the Americans thought was possible, and it's happening.
My concern is that when I look at what's happening in Europe, in Aberdeen—where my people are from—there were 42,000 new jobs, and 1,500 last year were in offshore wind. We've lost 45,000 jobs in the oil sector, and we lost 1,500 this year at Suncor alone. There is a real sense from some of the people I'm talking to that we're sitting at the side of the road while the rest of the world is moving ahead.
How urgent is it for Canada to actually get in the game with our competitors on clean energy?