Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Minister and Ms. Gillis, for being with us today.
I met recently with sustainable transportation advocates. They expressed dismay that the latest budget contains a cut to a couple of key transit funds, the first of which is the zero emission transit fund, which is used to purchase electric school buses and electric transit buses. In their view, this fund has been reduced at a time when the impacts of climate change are being felt right across the country.
The commissioner of the environment and sustainable development has highlighted that your government is not on track to meet its emissions targets. Why is this government cutting back on the purchase of clean technology at a time when we need to be accelerating our action on climate change?