Thank you, Mr. Chair.
The current government talks a lot about security. Anyone who questions a pipeline's pathway is even accused of going against the country's economic security.
I have a bit of a problem this morning. I am learning that eastern Canada has no real energy security. I do not think it is any more important to worry about western Canada's economic security than it is to worry about the possibility of hundreds of thousands of Quebeckers or Maritimers one day having no heat in the winter.
I am also learning that there may be an energy security plan that would make it possible, for instance, for a tanker to go through the Panama Canal to help us out if Africa ever had a problem that was too big. Can we really call that an energy security plan for eastern Canada?
Mr. Newman, what do you think?