Mr. Speaker, yesterday, the Minister of Energy and Natural Resources promised here in the House that Canada would do its part to help release oil reserves in order to stabilize the market. That is a good idea, but we have a bit of a problem: We do not have a strategic oil reserve, in part because for 10 years the fine people facing me right now have shown contempt for Canadian oil. Our party is proposing a strategic reserve of energy and minerals. Today, the Conservative leader wrote to the Prime Minister calling for such an initiative to go ahead.
Will the Prime Minister say yes to this creation of wealth and thus create an essential lever in this uncertain world?