Madam Speaker, talking about leadership, Alberta was the first province to have an environment minister. It was the first jurisdiction in all of North America to regulate and report emissions, the first jurisdiction in all of North America to set targets for reductions across sectors and enforce them and the first jurisdiction in North America to have a major industrial levy to reduce emissions and incent innovation and technology. That was all more than a decade ago.
Speaking of clean tech, in Canada the number one investor of the private sector in clean tech are oil sands companies. The last known statistics were of the $2 billion in clean tech, $1.8 billion was invested by oil sands.
Alberta is home to the oldest wind farm in all of Canada. Major investments of the private sector in alternative and renewable energy technologies are from oil sands and pipeline companies. They are Canadian and are world leaders in innovation, R and D and technology.
How come these facts never come out of the mouths of that minister or any of those Liberal members?