Mr. Speaker, I thank the minister for his speech. He spoke a lot about team Canada. I hope he will be as passionate and energetic about defending the softwood lumber industry in our dispute with the United States as he is about defending the Enbridge pipeline. I will move on.
This crisis is showing us that we may sometimes be unprepared and dependent. One of the solutions to the Enbridge situation could be to work on developing energy independence, which would require a transition. We never hear the minister talk about this. Just today, he announced $24 million towards developing net-zero oil. In my opinion, net-zero oil is like diet poutine. There is no such thing.
My question for the minister is a simple one. Does he not think that the Enbridge dispute shows how much we need to transition to a low-carbon energy economy, an economy that is less dependent on oil?