It depends on where they get their fabricated product. The government spent $3.5 billion buying a pipeline—great. Again, that's with my tax dollars and the gentleman from P.E.I.'s tax dollars, and now they're going to allow a company to hook up to that by bringing in imported fabricated product not made here in Canada because they claim it will cost them a billion dollars more.
I didn't see my company getting a bailout like the automotive industry did for $12 billion from the government, yet we're allowing this company a billion-dollar cost on a $40-billion project? It's unconscionable that we let that happen.
You're talking about a project that will last for 50 years. They're saying it's a billion dollars cheaper, yet it's on our back. There are fabricators that could be busy here using Canadian steel and Canadian labour to fabricate this, and we've granted them a hall pass. Do you think they're not going to do this project for the billion dollars? It's ridiculous.
By the way, it's more than the billion dollars. You're talking about tens of billions of dollars of fabricated product that could be made here. Great—if the government wants to buy a pipeline and bail everybody out, tell them to give LNG Canada a billion-dollar loan to have $15 billion dollars' worth of product made here. I think that's a better return than letting it be made in China.