Thank you very much, Mr. Simard.
I don't think my answer will surprise you. I don't agree with you.
Bill C-49 doesn't exist in a vacuum in a closed universe. It's part of a suite of policies and measures, financial measures in particular, that our government has put in place to promote the development of clean technologies and renewable energy and increasingly to reduce federal government support for the development of fossil fuels.
As you know, we are the first and only G20 country that has eliminated fossil fuel subsidies; no other country has done so. And yet we are the fourth largest oil producer in the world. We are the only oil-producing country that's in the process of introducing a plan to limit, cap and cut greenhouse gas emissions in the oil and gas industry.
Going back to Mr. Mousseau's comments about stumbling blocks, as I told Ms. Jones, the development of offshore wind, like that of wind generally speaking and land-based renewable energy sources, must be conducted in a context of trade-offs in which we need to examine a set of factors and land uses for which decisions have to be made. That, incidentally, is the business of the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada.