Mr. Chair, we know the Minister of the Environment, the minister's colleague, put forward a prebudget submission to the Minister of Finance in which he supported the deputy minister of finance's calls for the phasing out of these subsidies. Now he lost that fight. The minister has yet to answer this. Has he put forward a prebudget submission to the Minister of Finance calling for the removal of these subsidies? He is named in this memo directly. He is being asked to comment on this memo.
The Prime Minister, by the way, has been formally briefed by PCO according to this memo and told that there are a whole series of fossil fuel subsidies that should be eliminated or should be considered for elimination in the next 25 days.
Once again, will the minister stand tonight in this place, tell the Canadian people what his recommendations are for the elimination of fossil fuel subsidies as he is committed to doing in terms of the promise made by the Prime Minister?