Referring back to what was said on the debate of the other motion, I find it ironic that the Liberal members of this committee are talking about jurisdiction when they just asserted federal jurisdiction yesterday through a vote in the House of Commons. I find it kind of rich that they're talking about EV mandates in British Columbia and Quebec, when they just imposed one yesterday, one that's pretty drastic and will require hundreds of billions of dollars of investment to support the grid and the infrastructure. We understand that it will require working with multiple levels of government to deliver and that it's one that would add $20,000 to the cost of a new vehicle for everyday consumers. We know how out of touch the Liberals are, but $20,000 is a lot of money to the average family. It would risk 40,000 good-paying, Canadian auto sector jobs. Many of them are in the ridings of members of this committee. Those are jobs that we will never get back.
We want to understand more about the effects of this EV mandate, and we want to see if there's additional research that could uncover whether this Liberal government has implemented on Canadians a mandate that Canadians did not ask for.