Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for his speech.
I would like to talk about the environment. As members know, Fiji is presiding over COP23 in Bonn, which is in its first week.
An article currently in Le Devoir is headlined “Commitments too weak to avoid climate disaster.” It issues a warning about our weak greenhouse gas emissions reduction commitments, which could result in disaster situations.
There is a tiny measure for geothermal projects, but does the member not think we should be going much further? For starters, the government needs to eliminate fossil fuel subsidies. It is ridiculous that we are still spending billions of dollars on fossil fuel subsidies, when we made an international commitment quite some time ago to eliminate them. There is nothing to encourage greater emphasis on the energy shift towards renewables.
Why did the update not include a more serious plan? We are currently at COP23, in the middle of a conference on climate change.