Thank you.
An accelerated phase-out thermal coal plan with no plan is nothing less than the wrong decision for our ports.
Chair, I've spent many days on the west coast with the ILWU and with the BCMEA during the strikes, understanding and realizing that it is a very vital area for Canada in terms of moving our commodities and driving our exports and our imports, our cars, and everything else the government wants to talk about. They are the ones doing the work, and now, potentially, we're going to take them out at the knees. I think that's pretty sad.
I want to take it a step further. My riding of Essex—I'm so darn proud to represent Essex—is right next to the busiest international border crossing in North America, right down by Detroit.
Through you, Mr. Chair, to our officials, it was very concerning to me that there were no answers for Mr. Strahl with regard to whether we had spoken to our U.S. officials yet.
Through you, Mr. Chair, can any of you kindly expand on this at all? Has there been absolutely no conversation with our U.S. officials on this?