Madam Speaker, my hon. colleague suggested several times that the current situation has absolutely nothing to do with the environment, which may raise some eyebrows.
In his speech, he mentioned several times that people may not believe him. I will use the same formula to show him that the current situation has everything to do with the environment.
If people do not believe me, members should consider the fact that a mining project like the Teck Frontier project would produce four million tonnes of CO2 per year and 260,000 barrels per day. If people do not believe me, then I will read a quote from Don Lindsay, who wrote:
...global capital markets are changing rapidly and investors and customers are increasingly looking for jurisdictions to have a framework in place that reconciles resource development and climate change, in order to produce the cleanest possible products. This does not yet exist here today....
If my colleague does not believe me, I can give him the paper.