Mr. Speaker, I think it is important to go back to the throne speech, which mentions the issue of climate change and how it is causing global disruption.
The government's proposed solution is to streamline environmental assessments and fast track projects. It talks about so-called “conventional” projects and becoming a superpower in so-called “conventional” energy. Everyone knows by now that that means oil and gas. Canada is already the world's fourth-largest oil producer and the world's fourth- or fifth-largest gas producer.
My question is very simple. At what point will the current government see itself as a global superpower? Does Canada want to become the biggest oil and gas producer in the universe before it takes the fight against climate change seriously? When will it finally get the country's dirtiest industry under control and realize that it needs to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, as Quebec has done and continues to do, even though Quebec is paying for the climate change impacts caused by the country's main source of pollution, namely oil and oil sands production?