Thank you, Mr. Chair.
It's a pleasure to be here. We need to come to the Standing Committee on Natural Resources from time to time to see to what extent, from an energy and environmental perspective, a Liberal is a Conservative.
What my Liberal colleague just said is absolutely scandalous, in that the Liberals' objective is not to meet their greenhouse gas emissions targets, but rather to do as the Conservatives did and export as much oil as possible. The argument we are hearing is that pipelines will be built because it is a safer way to transport oil than a train. That is the argument my colleague just used when he asked the people from the Canada Energy Regulator whether the pipeline is less dangerous than a train to transport tonnes of oil. That is a completely dishonest question from my colleague, who is an honest person.
So I'm going to ask you this: Wouldn't it be safer, if we had energy security, to transport and export less oil?