Thank you, Mr. Chair.
This is actually very relevant to the motion on the floor because the motion on the floor is an attack on the Albertan energy industry. It is an attack on Alberta energy workers, and it is seen as such.
I was just home in my riding over the weekend, and I had an opportunity to talk to people who, when I brought forward the fact that a motion was brought forward at the natural resources committee that only talked about these wells in Alberta's context and failed to talk about the wells in British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Quebec, Ontario.... It's very frustrating, and I can appreciate the fact that the parliamentary secretary is probably a little embarrassed right now that her department set her up by telling her that the only two provinces that got money were Alberta and Saskatchewan, and that's why those were the only two named in the preamble. They conveniently left British Columbia off, and they conveniently left out the fact that British Columbia also had to return some of its money. However, that's semantics, and that clearly isn't an intentional attack.
If the Department of Natural Resources didn't know, it failed you, Ms. Dabrusin. It failed you by giving you this motion to put forward.
That is the fact. If this is what you think you should be bringing forward as the parliamentary secretary of natural resources, shame on you. This is absolutely not okay. This does not send a signal to anyone that Canada is somewhere to invest. It doesn't show or support that the Government of Canada believes there should be any investments in the natural resources industry, in the energy industry or in Alberta. It just continues on. What else can we expect from a government that has very clearly decided to put a fringe eco-activist as its environment minister, someone who is very well known in Canada from the mug shots when he got caught scaling the CN Tower? Ironically, he was also arrested at one point while chaining himself to a coker on its way up to the Fort McMurray oil sands. This is a man who made his entire living on—