Mr. Speaker, it is great to see you back in the House of Commons. Congratulations on your electoral victory and your current posting.
First of all, I want to thank my colleague for her astute comments. She is obviously a very savvy and professional businesswoman who brings great esteem to the House in that capacity. Before I go further, I would like to pay homage to her predecessor, Pat Davidson, who was a great MP for Sarnia Lambton for almost 10 years.
I am going to ask a question on the commonalities between our respective ridings that both host some of the largest petrochemical installations with Nova Chemicals and so on. I represent the fine people who live and work at Joffre and some of my friends started working for Nova Chemicals in Calgary and are now living and working in Sarnia.
I would like to ask the member what the importance and significance is of pipelines, energy mobility, and access to markets for these products that do all this great value added in our respective ridings, the value that those jobs bring, and her concern about the near absence of energy and petrochemicals in the Speech from the Throne.