We support the bill. The pipeline industry as a whole represents some 25,000 jobs across Canada, and $100-billion worth of revenues to our government from hydrocarbons moving through it on an annual basis. It is absolutely key to many of the social programs, with the industry paying $1.1 billion in property and corporate taxes last year that also served to fund countless social programs and the well-being of individual communities.... In no way should those numbers ever substantiate the fact that we would accept a spill. We're working very aggressively to make sure that does not happen.
