Mr. Speaker, last week, at their meeting last week, the Prime Minister of Canada and the premier of Quebec approved the Maritimes pipeline project.
This important project will finally make this energy available to Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and a number of regions in Quebec.
The project is estimated to be worth over $1 billion, with nearly one quarter of this amount to be invested in Quebec.
Had it not been for the meeting of the two first ministers, the odds are that the route across Quebec planned by the two oil companies exploiting the pool on Sable Island, off the coast of Nova Scotia, would have never been possible.
Here again, we have proof that co-operation between governments provides the best assurance of Quebec's prosperity.