We are able to dig into and have some transparency around this $5.92 million. The only mention of the Trans Mountain pipeline in the estimates is this $5.9 million. We have recently learned that the construction costs are going to be $12.6 billion to finish construction. That's with us borrowing and it's in addition to the $4.5 billion that we already spent to buy the Trans Mountain pipeline, which never came to Parliament. The government hasn't publicly released the Trans Mountain Corporation report that yielded the most recent $12.6-billion cost estimate so the public can actually understand what it includes and what it does not, and assess future risks.
We know that the Canada Trans Mountain pipeline finance corporation borrowed from another Crown corporation, Export Development Canada, yet we've not seen that corporate plan.
As MPs, don't you think we should have the opportunity to study the financial risks of Trans Mountain? Why is that huge expenditure, which has such significant impacts on the environment and significant impacts on our ability to meet our climate targets, not subject to parliamentary scrutiny? Will the government be making that information available to Canadians?