Mr. Speaker, the conclusions of the Conference Board have been known since October, but the government waited until February 22 to release them.
Finally, it seems clear that the conclusions were probably known ahead of time, since the start of committee deliberations, even.
Could we not say the Minister of Industry or the Minister of Natural Resources is mocking the public, since we know full well that Shell, Petro-Canada and Imperial Oil influenced this work, and the conclusions could be only favourable to the major oil companies and unfavourable to consumers? Who are the minister and the government protecting: the consumers or the petroleum industry?