Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Given the opportunity to continue on a few different things here, I will address my colleague from the NDP's comments about denial and delay. We heard a lot of huff and puff there, a lot of righteous indignation about criticism from other parts. I would argue, and I'm saying here, that there is no denial or a delay here. I think the question to the commissioner that I have been asking is about how the denial, or the reality that we face in reducing emissions, is an international challenge and that we have to look at in that context.
Mr. DeMarco, I asked in my opening round about whether we ought to look at the production and emissions of other countries I listed that are filling the gap of where Canadian energy is not going. I'm very proud as a Canadian of our energy sector in this country, and particularly of the frontline worker and making sure they're supported with paycheques here, as opposed to others around the world. But we live in denial if we think that when we cancel a project here that this same project just won't happen elsewhere. We are seeing the reality of companies moving to other countries that don't have the same focus, that don't have a commissioner such as you, and don't have that same emphasis on environmental targets. We try to feel good here in Canada, and we're losing good Canadian paycheques and jobs here and they're going to countries and companies around the world that don't give two hoots about what we're talking about here.
I do think living in denial amounts to two things. One is acknowledging that when we scrap projects here in this country, they just go away and that the environment gets better. Your report confirms that it does not, but it also confirms that we're not tracking the decisions we're making in Canada and the impacts they're having on global emissions, because they're going to other countries that don't have the same environmental standards, net zero, carbon capture, and all these environmental aspects. The reality is, for all that huff and puff, we are going to see the NDP, tonight in a confidence vote, and for the next three years, vote with the Liberals and again see very little change.
I'll just go to my question and this is a question for Mr. Hannaford, just to test this.
The tone and the status quo of what I'm hearing here is about discontinuing. The commissioner referenced that the legislation to support workers was not available. It was supposed to be tabled in the fall. The one thing that was missing, in the comments you made today, was an actual timeline of when the legislation is going to be ready, when it's going to be tabled to come to Parliament. We heard beforehand of changes in the consultations process, and all of these things. We see the damning report by the commissioner, and in the response today, I, frankly, think we're getting the status quo of no timelines and no plans to actually bring something forward. There have been consultations, discussions and so forth, and we've known about the problem for years.
Can you give a date of when the legislation will be tabled in Parliament to actually move support for workers forward? I just want a date.