Madam Speaker, the pollution cap will ensure that our energy sector can increase its production while decreasing its emissions. Countries around the world are looking at Canada for less-polluting energy. If we want our energy to stay competitive, we must lower our emissions. The pollution cap will provide long-term competitiveness in Canadian energy so that we can keep being an energy superpower for the world.
Under the do-nothing approach of the previous Conservative government, Canada's imports of foreign oil were two times higher. It failed to promote Canadian energy. I would be happy to offer the Conservative leader and his party a briefing on climate change. He does not—