Mr. Chair, my colleague has indeed been an advocate for several environmental issues. I am thinking in particular of innovation in the auto sector. I know that the electrification of transportation is one of the values he has been promoting in the House for a long time. That said, what has his government done in recent years?
It cut back on innovation. Programs such as Sustainable Development Technology Canada had the merit of investing in SMEs that were creating this technological innovation so that we could all have electric vehicles by 2035 in order to save our planet.
However, momentum in investments and in SMEs stalled from a failure to respect patents and contracts. Ultimately, these investments collapsed. What do we have in the latest budget? Absolutely nothing.
Why have the Liberals abandoned the goal of having only electric vehicles on our roads by 2030 or 2035?