Natural Resources committee  Hello.

Natural Resources committee  Thank you. Thanks for the opportunity to appear today. I'd like to offer three observations and principles related to the plan for a greenhouse gas emissions cap for the oil and gas sector. The first is that Canada's production of oil and gas takes place within a global marke

Natural Resources committee  I don't object to the cap on emissions rather than production. I don't have a comment about the jurisdiction piece of that.

Natural Resources committee  I don't think it has to be done that way. I think there are different ways to reduce emissions across the sectors.

Natural Resources committee  At what level would that be? When you say “cap”, it sort of—

Natural Resources committee  So you're talking about other industrial sectors?

Natural Resources committee  I think it would make sense to look at other sectors—not necessarily at the same level, though.

Natural Resources committee  Do you mean at the same level? Yes, because—

Natural Resources committee  If it's at the same time, then no.

Natural Resources committee  No. I think we need to get to net zero, but the current emissions by Canada's electricity sector for the use of electric vehicles is lower on a total life cycle basis.

Natural Resources committee  Yes.

Natural Resources committee  No, my statement was purely about the sale of electric vehicles, independent of any change in demand or changes in traffic patterns.

Natural Resources committee  I'm sorry but I don't understand the question.

Natural Resources committee  Yes.

Natural Resources committee  When you talk about the upstream emissions, it's important to count them all, as you say. Those are both process emissions and things like methane, as well, that I mentioned. If one is designing a cap around a specific sector, I agree with the comments of the other witnesses, t