Thank you, Madam Chair.
There is a lot of research conducted on EVs, and this committee wants to understand more about it. Many Canadian universities have begun to study this. The research could be quite broad. It could perhaps be about understanding whether EVs are appropriate in rural areas in this country. It could study whether there are the charging stations and networks that support having that many EVs on the road in urban areas in the country.
This looks like a case of Liberal hypocrisy, time and again, and this is just a prime example of it. The Liberals just voted for a federal EV mandate yesterday, and now they want to shut down this committee's call to conduct additional research on it. That's just hypocrisy. This is one day later—24 hours later. They then raise issues. If I'm not mistaken, there are Liberal members of this committee saying it's not the right committee.
Does that mean that if it were a different committee, you would vote in favour of it?
They're starting to talk about jurisdiction. Again, we're not encroaching on the jurisdiction of the provinces. Unlike the Liberals, we respect the Constitution. If there's a party against research, it sounds like it's the Liberals, because they're voting against conducting research on a mandate that they just imposed on Canadians—one that they're not calling for.
We're not against EVs. I know a Liberal member wants to sling mud at us and say that Conservatives don't support EVs. We support consumer choice. We're simply against the mandate that taxes Canadians, that restricts consumer choice and that kills potentially tens of thousands of jobs permanently. We want to have an honest discussion—