Environment committee  I will quickly respond and ask my colleague Tara Peel to add her comments. I want to make one thing clear: the CLC isn't saying that there should be no subsidies, but rather that they should be directed to what will support workers, who are constituents. Ms. Peel can answer the rest of the question.

Environment committee  For the latter part of your question, that is exactly what we're asking for, to make sure that the investments are targeted, and that does include tax and the other kinds of subsidies we're talking about. We need to make sure that the funding that the government is looking at is going to help maintain....

Environment committee  I'll ask Tara to round that out, because there are some specific measures we'd like to see. Go ahead.

Environment committee  I don't want to keep repeating myself, but our organization is going to support anything that brings us to the table in the decision-making process. I've heard the comments from the Chamber of Commerce and from the industry side. We will be talking about workers. Everybody talks about workers, but no one is asking the workers what they believe is going to be the best way forward on this.

Environment committee  Absolutely. Just transition means that.... We have a model already. We have health and safety committees in the workplace. Why don't we just introduce the same notion of having just transition committees in the workplace as well, where we are at the table? That's one way we can get our voice heard and make sure we don't just go down that path of whether it's profitable or not profitable and boom—everybody's out on the street.

Environment committee  Thank you for that question. To start, especially getting back to a previous honourable member's comment, I think everybody should be quite clear that, for the CLC, when we represent three million workers and when we're talking about unionized jobs across this country, we can't have good unionized jobs without strong industry.

Environment committee  I have nothing to add. Mr. Mousseau explained it very well. Thank you very much.

Environment committee  Indeed. Thank you for your question.

Environment committee  Ha ha! I'd also like to hear from Mr. Mousseau.

Environment committee  Yes, yes and yes.

Environment committee  As I mentioned earlier, the CLC is not arguing against subsidies. You're talking about a tax deduction, so I'm very interested in seeing the draft of your bill, sir. If you could flip that to us.... I'll ask Tara Peel to reach out to you so that we can see it. The devil is always in the details, as they say, but from what you're saying, we are keenly interested to see what that is all about.

Environment committee  If it is what I think it is, let's make it happen, absolutely. We're willing to work with everyone, as long as it's in the interests of the workers. Thank you very much.

Environment committee  Could you repeat that question one more time, please?

Environment committee  Your guess is as good as mine. We'd certainly be concerned about it. That's a very good question. I don't have the answer to that question right now. It's certainly something that should be taken into consideration by all parties—government, industry and labour—because that could very well happen.

Environment committee  I'll kick this one over to my colleague Tara Peel.