Natural Resources committee  Actually, for the CER, if you look at the mains, for example, the funding that is provided is actually lower than last year. There was a bit more in the funding at [Inaudible-Editor] but just to stabilize the organization's operations and improvement, especially now that they wil

Natural Resources committee  Okay.

Natural Resources committee  I would go directly to the questions, if it's okay with you.

Natural Resources committee  I would not announce the CFS and I would leave the Minister of Environment to do it when he chooses a time to do it, but to come back to your point on the clean fuel, you're right about the exports and the importance of the export of natural gas and also of energy for Canada. It'

Natural Resources committee  There are two aspects to it. The first one is that if you want to reduce the emissions, you have to go where the emissions are, and we have to recognize that the energy sector is where a significant amount of the emissions are, so it's important for us to act there. The second—

Natural Resources committee  Going into that, that's an important one from the business perspective and from a Canadian perspective. Look at the NGTL. It's going to help, for example, some regions of the country to get out of coal. This is clearly strategically important to go there. I wanted to come back t

Natural Resources committee  A lot of that is to replace coal, in many aspects. For example, China is 60% dependent on coal, so it's important they're getting.... The minister said it's practical and I think that's the point. If we want to get to net zero, we have to take full advantage of producing—

Natural Resources committee  They could be used for the production of hydrogen in Canada, for example.

Natural Resources committee  The last point I would mention is that the fuel standard was developed in consultation with and by engaging with the industry. They actually raised some of the concerns, and we'll see how some of them could be addressed and how we are going to move on with this. I would say that

Natural Resources committee  You'll notice there was some funding for geoscience in the main estimates and the supply.... It's very important. It's by doing geoscience that we find the minerals, identify them and support the industry. I will turn to Jeff, who I'm sure wants to say more. He's been waiting fo

Natural Resources committee  You're right, it feels like we're in Saguenay; I'll try to lighten up my accent, otherwise we will lose the interpreters. Thank you for your question. The interest in and importance of industries is not necessarily calculated in dollars alone. I can tell you that the effort is t

Natural Resources committee  We don't choose one province over another, I want to make that clear. In terms of investing more in added value, that's something governments and industry need to work on together. We need to innovate more. You know as well as I do that forestry has long been a fairly traditiona

Natural Resources committee  Yes, we consulted experts, of course. I can refer to Ms. Johnson, who has worked on that. We believe that ideas must be built on facts, on evidence produced by science. That is what determines what's best in the end. Our goal with the hydrogen strategy is indeed to develop new m

Natural Resources committee  If we had had a discussion 15 years ago, we would have talked about a completely different picture. As you remember, before there was shale gas and shale oil. This is a sector that is evolving quite quickly. I think there's still a market for the LNG; that's for sure. That's wha

Natural Resources committee  It's hard for me to assess a project without seeing the details of it. I'm not in a position to answer it. If you want to send us the project, we would be pleased to look at it.