Thank you, Chair.
Thank you, Minister, for indulging me.
Neither the main estimates nor the supplementary estimates includes the $4.5-billion purchase of the Trans Mountain pipeline. Your government took a loan, through the Canada Development Investment Corporation, from Export Development Canada to create a new Crown corporation, Trans Mountain Corporation.
We've heard all this talk of parliamentary oversight. Why would you make such a large purchase and not use the estimates process to get this money approved? If you have so much money floating around from Crown corporations, why on earth is your government spending it on a diluted bitumen-exporting pipeline and not addressing the needs of the housing crisis or climate change adaptation and mitigation?