Mr. Speaker, the minister keeps saying that the increased production of oil will not affect his plan, but his own department warned him that such is not the case.
What is worse, the minister does not even include the extra barrels in his calculation. When he approved the Bay du Nord project, they were talking about 300 million barrels. That figure rose to 500 million last week and is now expected to go as high as one billion barrels.
The minister, however, keeps saying that everything is fine, that no matter how many barrels are produced, it will all be net-zero.
I could not even make this up. Is the notion of green oil a matter of wishful thinking or is it just incorrect?