Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Deputy Minister, earlier I asked the minister a question about the Pathways Plus project, which is also found in the budget. The minister talked a lot about a trip he took to Germany.
I, too, would like to talk about the trip I took with Mr. Wilkinson to Germany, where we visited the Siemens facilities. When we talked about carbon capture and storage strategies with the folks at Siemens, who I think are very reliable, they told us that that this was all very well and good, but that they did not believe that governments would ever seriously get involved in such a venture because the technological risk was too high.
If the government is investing money in strategies for capturing and storing such high volumes of carbon, then I assume you have scientific analyses showing that this is feasible. I assume that your decision-making process is based on the expertise of people who have shown that these strategies are feasible.
Once again, I am saying this because most of the experts that we talked to at committee as part of a study on this subject told us that it was unrealistic to apply these kinds of strategies to such high volumes of carbon. Perhaps you can reassure us.