Mr. Speaker, the parliamentary secretary made a compelling case for electric vehicles. I must commend him for that, but I still cannot help but point out that his government basically gutted the transportation electrification industry over the past year, with disastrous results for the industry. Now, the government is trying to patch things up, but it is going to be difficult to turn this situation around.
My question for the member is this. I am already convinced, but if he is so certain that the electrification of transportation is the way of the future, then why is his government still investing more in oil than in electrification? It seems to me that if the government believes that something is the way of the future, then that is where it would put the money. It would not be putting more money in the past than in the future.