Mr. Speaker, I thank my hon. colleague for his speech, but it made me jump out of my chair a little bit. I almost fell over, but I caught myself just in time. He said that the government does not support the oil industry.
It is important to know that since the late 1970s and early 1980s, we have collectively invested over $70 billion to make this industry profitable.
In the last four years alone, the federal government's subsidy strategy for the oil and gas industry was $24 billion, while for the forestry industry it was $971 million. That is not counting the fact that, for the forest industry, 75% of the money was in the form of loans.
I would like to ask my hon. colleague a very simple question: Does he think $24 billion is more or less than $971 million?