Mr. Speaker, I question the premise of my colleague's question. Here is a headline from just yesterday, “Forget Any Economic Windfall from Kinder Morgan, Analyst Says”. The article says:
In a brief yet damning report David Hughes, a former federal government energy researcher, concluded that tripling the pipeline’s capacity won’t deliver an extra $73 billion in revenue over two decades as claimed by Kinder Morgan.
Again and again, we keep hearing this project is in the public interest. I do not understand how a multinational corporation, headquartered in Houston, Texas, unsafely transporting diluted tar to China through my backyard on our beautiful coastline is in Canada's national interest. It does not help our energy security. It does not give us jobs. It risks the marine jobs we already have.