Yes. Whether it's to do with indigenous reconciliation or provincial jurisdiction and actually taking time to stay in their own lane....
This motion, as it's currently written, does not actually respect the jurisdiction of the provinces and it doesn't acknowledge federal jurisdiction. That is the jurisdiction of these wells that exist on first nations land. It does none of this.
As I've said before, it doesn't acknowledge the fact that British Columbia also received money. They decided to cherry-pick and attack Alberta because they'd prefer to attack Conservative provinces. That has been the modus operandi of this Liberal-NDP government for the last nine years. It's ridiculously frustrating.
I don't really understand the speed of my colleague from the NDP to so quickly say this is not admissible. I don't understand how we can go forward with a preamble that is such an overt and open attack on the population and the energy industry in Alberta. This is frustrating.
Based on local, recent news, British Columbia had to return $12 million in oil and gas well cleanup funding, and more than $12 million from the investment in the cleaning up of inactive wells in British Columbia has been returned to the federal government. However, that's not identified in this because it wasn't part of the agenda that was brought forward by the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, who reports directly to the Minister of Energy and Natural Resources and through him, his representation and his office's representation on this committee.... The Minister of Energy and Natural Resources clearly only does things that are in lockstep with the Prime Minister; otherwise, he wouldn't actually still be the minister.
This falls into this unique category, where this is very clearly an edict that's come down from Justin Trudeau himself. It's yet another attack on the home province of the chair; on the home province of my colleague, our shadow minister for natural resources, Shannon Stubbs; and the home province of my good friend Earl Dreeshen. This is why we have Albertans here at this committee. It's because this is egregious.