Before I get there, and I will, I want to address a sentiment that I heard in your questions and the previous member's comments.
I think some people are struggling, suggesting that the question we're trying to answer at this committee and in our country is whether we should transition. That's not the question. The transition is already happening, and it's happening in oil and gas. I mentioned that we have 130,000 people in my province working directly in oil and gas. That's down 40,000 workers from 2014. That's partly as the result of a drop in the price of oil, but it's also because the industry is not the engine of job creation that it once was, and it never will be.
For us, the transition is already happening, and the question is not if it's going to be a transition, but what kind of transition it's going to be. Is it going to be an orderly transition or a disorderly transition, or a planned transition or an unplanned transition? That's the question.