David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I wish to raise just one more topic. Recently, New York and Washington were inundated with smoke from fires in Canada, which was terrible to see. The witnesses mentioned that Canada is very competitive from the point of view of energy production and we know that is the case with oil, gas, and so on. Climate change is obviously a big topic with us here so can they comment on the impact of climate change in Canada? Is it impacting business and industry? Is it being commented on and is it high in the discussion? Where do they, therefore, see all of this going in Canada especially when we look at what happened in the past year as well over in British Columbia, where serious fires took place? It is terrible to see such a beautiful part of the world being ravaged by fires and again, on this occasion, up around north of New York in that area.