Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Mr. Minister, for being here. It's too bad there are only two days before the next budget. Hopefully, we'll see you again after the budget.
Mr. Minister, my first question is about your cheerleading, cross-country, pipeline promotion tour.
Do you really think it's legitimate to dismiss Canadians' concerns about 60-plus thousand long-term permanent jobs in fisheries and wilderness tourism, generating billions of dollars each year and sustaining coastal communities, as radical? This sort of ideological attack by a government on its citizens is nearly unprecedented in Canadian history and shows a complete lack of understanding of the concerns about livelihood and environment that many people are expressing through the review process. It gives the impression that the government has already made up its mind and would be willing to approve any pipeline that increases oil companies' profits, regardless of the impacts on the environment and livelihoods.