Madam Speaker, driving to work in Calgary this morning, these are the stories we would hear on the radio. We would hear about the impact of the Trans Mountain pipeline delay on the local economy. We would hear about how Bill C-69 is killing investment in the energy sector. We would hear about how the price differential for oil is killing the energy sector. We would hear about stagnant wage growth in the city, and we would hear about high unemployment numbers that are continuing.
My constituents and my province need the government to immediately kill Bill C-69. This is a key determinant of investment fleeing the province, and it needs to stop today. It needs to invoke paragraph 92.10(c) of the Constitution to ensure that the Trans Mountain pipeline is completely within federal jurisdiction, and it needs to scrap the carbon tax. Most importantly, the government needs to stop treating Alberta like a colony, whose only purpose is to be milked for equalization payments.