Madam Speaker, my constituents are outraged. Many are highly-skilled, highly-talented, highly-educated, unemployed energy workers.
Last week, they saw reports of the Prime Minister speaking in Paris and talking about phasing out the oil sands. That does not give them much hope. Of course that was not the first time he said that.
This week my constituents learned that the government was using our hard-earned taxpayer dollars to provide summer jobs, not for students who do good work with seniors and others who are less fortunate in the community but to protest against the Trans Mountain pipeline.
A number of students in my riding did not get summer jobs this year because faith groups would not sign on to the Liberal government's values test. Meanwhile, radical environmental groups are receiving funding so they can protest against a project that the government allegedly supports.
It is time for the government to quit supporting radicals who break the law and go back to supporting actual students who work for good jobs in the community.