I'm just going to go right into it, Mr. Chair.
I was going to raise, on a point of order, that I am more than capable and that I have, in fact, read the motion we are debating and the preamble we are debating. I listened when the clerk read the motion and preamble, and I am capable of understanding what those words mean, which frustrates me that Mr. Angus somehow believes that it is not the case. If it was an attack....
Here's part of the problem. Mr. Angus has a private member's bill that is a full-on attack on Alberta's energy industry. He has made no ifs, ands or buts about his dislike for it. However, this is the absolute frustration that we are in right now, Mr. Chair. We have this Liberal-NDP coalition that sees the energy industry and, in turn, the Province of Alberta and the people of Alberta, as “lesser than”. It does not support Alberta and our energy industry. It does not support the workers that get their paycheques from this industry. It wants to see less of this industry, and this is where we disagree.
I am proud of our world-class energy industry that we have here in Canada. I think we need to do more to support it. I'm proud of the fact that the Government of Alberta didn't just throw money out the door to get it spent so that it could check boxes to the Government of Canada, and instead, it decided to create a program that was actually robust. It made sure that there was accountability, something that the Government of Canada could learn a lot from.
I know that in the government operations committee, they are currently studying failures on indigenous procurement. Our House of Commons is completely seized and paralyzed because of the government refusing to hand over documents when it comes to a green slush fund. There is such a pattern of abuse of taxpayer dollars from the federal government that it is very frustrating that the Government of Alberta, which was unable to spend all of the money under this program, said, “Do you know what? Let's ask for an extension because we're showing that we are doing credible work.” It was actually moving—