Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Brian will be taking the lead.

Environment committee  Thank you very much. My name is Shannon Joseph, and I am the vice-president of government relations and indigenous affairs for the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers or CAPP. CAPP represents the upstream oil and natural gas industry in Canada. We would like to thank t

Environment committee  Thanks very much for the question. Yes. When we first saw this bill, one of the things we thought was where the economic aspect of this was, because we know that the environment and the economy need to go together. They need to be thought of together. We put forward amendments

Environment committee  The issue is just a lack of consideration. There is nothing in the bill that requires the federal government, in its planning process, to explicitly take into account the measures that provincial and territorial governments are taking, and how their measures interact with federal

Environment committee  I think it would be unfortunate if the panel does not include the expertise of the people who know how to do things. As for some of the comments made earlier by other panellists about cement-making, steel-making, oil and gas and mining, all of these industries have very specifi

Environment committee  Thank you very much. First, I would say that it's absolutely critical for us to have an economic lens on the way we pursue net zero and what it changes for the affordability in all aspects of the economy. You don't hear that spoken about in the IEA's report and we haven't heard

Environment committee  Not at all. Canada has to pursue its international commitments. All industries, including mine, are committed to that. My members are some of the top producers of hydrogen. We are seriously looking at all types of technology and all forms of energy as we look at our own operation

Environment committee  I agree that it should not be one minister. In our view the Governor in Council and a diversity of ministers—the industry minister, the finance minister, and the employment minister—should have a role in determining who is at that table.

Environment committee  Can I add one point? It is that Canada is really beyond low-hanging fruit in terms of emissions reduction ambition. To go beyond that low-hanging fruit is going to require innovation by all sectors and an investment.

Environment committee  We are unaware of that agreement.

Environment committee  I'll take that for CAPP. Today the oil and gas industry is a significant partner with many indigenous-owned businesses across our operating areas. Our oil sands alone do about $2.4 billion in business with those indigenous-owned businesses and, of course, many of these nations

Environment committee  Perhaps I could add one more point. During the pandemic, oil demand dropped to 95 million barrels a day. It's back at 100 million barrels a day, and aviation is not fully back online. It's going to go up when it does. All of this is very connected to people's standard of living

Environment committee  On the production side, again, it's our view that there are no production subsidies in Canada. I think there's work that the federal government can do with the provinces to create the best policies possible to enable producers to reduce their emissions. I can give an example fro

Environment committee  Well, I think as my colleague said, the federal government should take stock of what is a subsidy and what isn't. We do rely on the G20 definition for that. If the federal government has policy goals that go beyond what industry's able to do economically, because we don't want t

Natural Resources committee  Thank you. Thank you very much, committee members, for the opportunity to present today. The upstream oil and gas industry is committed to environmental leadership. We see an important role for our industry in meeting increasing global demand for reliable, affordable and respon