Mr. Speaker, that is a breathtakingly ridiculous question. I am standing up for my own riding, a coastal community, for which this project is all downside and no upside. I would argue for workers along the pipeline route that Kinder Morgan's testimony at the National Energy Board said this project is going to create 50 permanent jobs. It would not even promise not to use temporary foreign workers in the construction of the pipeline.
Just last month from Simon Fraser University, academic Tom Gunton released a new assessment of the Kinder Morgan project viability. He said recent forecasts say there is massive overcapacity to move oil in North America, and that “there are clearly viable options to Trans Mountain that have significantly lower environmental risk”. Therefore, “why would we risk B.C.’s coastline?” I could not agree more.