Mr. Speaker, there is a lot there, and I hope I will be given room. First of all, oil and gas production went up 34% in the last 10 years. I take notice from the last government. I would have liked to see a more competitive lens in terms of how we drive the energy sector. We have that now in the Prime Minister. We have that now in the Minister of Energy and Natural Resources. They are working with the Government of Alberta. I have seen first-hand their work with the Government of Saskatchewan and others to drive Canada's energy sector.
To reply to the hon. member and the way in which he has framed it, I do think there is a comparison, because when we think about the removal of lead from gasoline, it was around an environmental imperative. I hope we would agree that there ought to be work done to fight climate change and to reduce emissions, and that there is a parallel between that and the work we are doing to make fuels cleaner in this country by using things such as ethanol blends from Canadian farmers, including in western provinces, including the prairies. I had the opportunity to talk to farmers directly about the fact that this biofuel policy not only is reducing emissions, creating better environmental outcomes, similar to removing lead from gasoline in the 1980s under the former progressive conservative government, but is also important public policy.
What I would respectfully ask the member back is, where is their plan? Their plan in April was to spend more taxpayer dollars to achieve less. How is that smart public policy on the Conservative side?