No, no. I'm all up for jokes, here.
I'm just finding the article.
Suncor Energy has said they are going to invest $50 billion over five years in the United States in their energy sector. This is an investment that will help the employment rates in the United States using the laws of supply and demand and organically raise wages across the marketplace as companies compete for the best workers. You're going to see quality of life increase because of this private sector investment. You're going to see new markets accessed where Canada is going to lose out. We could already be exporting off our east coast even more if it wasn't for energy east. It would have brought thousands upon thousands of jobs to the east coast.
We continue to allow tankers from other countries, many from foreign despots like Venezuela and Saudi Arabia, to access our east coast. We can all take a look at what's happening in Venezuela and how the rise of crippling socialism has crushed that country, as well as the nationalization of the oil sector and the agriculture sector. Credit has crushed that country. Again, it's not the government that's starving; it's the people on the street begging for food who can't keep their lights on, but the government has their lights on.
Here we have a private company, Kinder Morgan, that wants to use investor dollars to build a pipeline to access growing markets in Asia. Now we have an issue with the government failing to lead on this file and creating a situation where Kinder Morgan had to set a deadline. There was no plan to get this project built. It was put forward, except for the fact that now, in order to get it built, we have to nationalize this project. That, Mr. Chair, is an unfortunate demonstration of the lack of leadership of the Prime Minister on this file.
I'm hoping that I have talked enough, and I'm right on time. I hope I will convince my colleagues across the way. Maybe I have Nick and maybe Marc. He has his happy tie to vote in favour of this motion.