—do you realize that this year, so far, Russia has only been able to generate about $95 billion from European gas sales? Last year, it was over $524 billion in sales to Europe. Do you realize, Madam Minister, that Gazprom is over 50% controlled by the Russian government and that a couple years ago Gazprom had net revenues of over $123 billion U.S.?
That means that $62 billion is going back to Russia because it owns over 50% of the company, and we know that over 45% of the Russian Federation's budget is from oil and gas revenue. Did you consider that the dollars Gazprom is going to get will go back to the Kremlin and will help fuel Putin's war machine, such as by buying more AK-74 military rifles, which go for about $800 apiece, or buy more cruise missiles and all the other artillery that's then fired into Kyiv and around Ukraine, which has already been estimated to cost over $80 billion? If we're going to give them $62 billion more, how much more damage is that going to entail for Ukraine and how many more of their lives are going to be lost?
I want to know how many Ukrainians have to die because of this Liberal government's enabling of Gazprom to put more money into Putin's war machine?