Mr. Chair, yes is a word. We want steel on the ground. We want a result. This government has been in office now for two years. It has allowed exactly zero pipelines to tidewater to proceed. It has killed Energy East, which would have transported Canadian crude to Canadian refineries rather than selling Canadian crude at a discount to the States and buying it at a premium from Saudi Arabia and Venezuela. It would have created jobs for refinery workers in the east and oil workers in the west.
The government's decision to block this project is going to harm the environment because that same oil will still be produced; it will just be produced in places where there's less regulation and fewer protections for the environment, and in places where there are state-owned oil companies that fund dictatorial human rights-abusing regimes around the world. Even hard-core environmentalists who like the Prime Minister dream of shutting down the oil industry are not even achieving that; they're just moving it to faraway lands to help bankroll our enemies.
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