Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague from Joliette.
Speaking of hope, when I see how my colleague from Joliette defends his files, it always fills me with hope.
I found some very interesting data on the socio-economic benefits that the industry is always boasting about. An environmental engineer and professor at Université Laval, who is also an expert on pollution, said that over the past 20 years, as production and emissions reached unprecedented heights, the industry slashed jobs to cut costs, and public revenue from royalties and taxes dropped precipitously.
We must not fall for the arguments served up by the industry. There is another side to the coin.