Madam Chair, again, the Minister of Finance chose not to stand and answer the question.
I will remind the parliamentary secretary, though, that under the current government, 7,000 kilometres of pipeline have been cancelled, whereas the previous government approved and saw built over 5,000 kilometres of pipeline.
Moving on to the main estimates directly, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank is being given another $52.3 million, money going to an infrastructure bank in Asia that will build three pipelines overseas. Why is the Government of Canada financing pipelines overseas instead of ensuring that pipelines are built in Canada?