Thank you very much.
You talked about the government setting an example. I'd like to come back to that, since it's important. People are watching us and listening to us, but they are also interested in the actions taken and the results. As we know, the Government of Canada has never managed to meet the greenhouse gas reduction targets it had set. It's related. We want to ban single-use plastics, reduce the reliance on plastics and reduce products that are not recyclable.
However, the current government has taken concrete action by buying a pipeline. As a result of this $34-billion expenditure, the daily production of oil will increase from 300,000 barrels to 890,000 barrels. That's a 200% increase. According to the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada, this will lead to an increase in greenhouse gases, from 21 million tonnes to 26 million tonnes a year. As you know, the government says it's green. And yet, I have personally never met a vegetarian who owns a butcher shop, but perhaps someone will tell me otherwise today.
We are increasing the production of greenhouse gases and, at the same time, we want to fight climate change with good intentions when it comes to recycling plastic. Does that constitute exemplary action based on scientific data?