Technology, Mr. Chair, is obviously improving and so the safety record is improving as well. However, we can get whiplash from following NDP contradictions on pipelines and the oil sands. The New Democrats claim to support resource development, but oppose it at every turn. They oppose pipelines going south, west and east. They are opposing the most recent going east. Before they seemed to be on side. Today at a meeting of the natural resources committee, we heard from a member of the NDP that they were in favour of the number 9 line, but the leader of the party is against it. I do not really know where they stand and I am not sure they do either.
In the House of Commons on May 21st, 2013. See this statement in context.