Excuse me, Minister, but my time is very short. It's only five minutes.
I respect that you're bringing up the softwood lumber agreement in your discussions, but I want to see a minister who is pounding his fist on the table fighting for our forest sector, and fighting for our LNG, natural gas and fossil fuel sectors in Canada, and I'm not seeing that.
I read a BBC article that talked about President Biden's side. The White House statement about the call between the Prime Minister and the President read, “The president acknowledged Prime Minister Trudeau's disappointment regarding the decision to rescind the permit”, but “reaffirmed his commitment to maintain an active bilateral dialogue and to further deepen co-operation with Canada.”
That doesn't sound like a Prime Minister who's pounding the table fighting for our natural resources sector in Canada. I just don't see it. Then we saw the announcement about Chevron pulling out. They should be one of the golden eggs in our natural resources sector in Canada, and we're not seeing a fist pounding on the table to fight for that industry. It has the potential to lower emissions around the globe, Minister, as hopefully you know.
If you're so voracious about reducing carbon outputs, you'd think you'd be defending that LNG sector around the world and pounding your fist on the table defending us. I come from an area in northern B.C. where the workers actually do the work to find the natural gas, produce it and get it to market.
How are you fighting for our sector? How are you fighting for Canadians in the natural gas sector in our nation?