Mr. Speaker, I listened very closely to my colleague and he said something that was factually wrong about decreasing emissions. Emissions are not decreasing in the oil patch. Under the Prime Minister, since he went to Paris, oil production in Canada has risen 41%. It will increase much higher thanks to TMX. Canada is now on track to be the world leader of increased oil production at a time when António Guterres is accusing the fossil fuel companies of being the godfathers of climate catastrophe. The government is subsidizing 52% of every barrel going down the TMX pipeline as a gift to the oil companies. We have had their executives at our committee; not only do they not believe in climate science, they do not care and they are not going to pay.
Why are we continuing to promote massive increases in bitumen production as the planet burns?