Mr. Chair, I would like to acknowledge the importance of the Trans Mountain expansion project, a project we see as being in the national interest of Canada.
I would like to acknowledge that we have moved forward with federal approval of this project, which was followed up by provincial approval. We have moved forward with a robust environmental assessment process that has led to a significant investment in oceans protection. We see this as being in the national interest.
We have been clear that we are seeking a financial approach to ensure this project gets done, and I have a level of confidence that this will happen. I was in discussions today. I am not in a position to provide more colour on those discussions, but sufficed to say, we believe this can be done in the commercially appropriate way.
We will be able to do something that the previous government was not able to do in 10 years, which is to get approval to construct a pipeline that will allow us to move our resources to international markets.