Mr. Speaker, the writing may have been on the wall, but to the member's question, we should have been supporting our oil and gas workers for the last five years, not the last five days.
It is a shame that a member from the NDP, who says the NDP is the party of working people, has not supported energy workers for five years. For him to stand here and ask that question and talk about the price point of oil right now is very interesting, as there are tens of thousands of people in my riding who do not have a job because of this cancellation and hundreds of people are now trying to figure out how they are going to pay their rent.
What we would have done as a government is supported our energy workers. We would not have embarrassed them for the last five years, nor added an ever-increasing carbon tax, passed Bill C-48, the tanker ban, and passed Bill C-69. We would have ensured that all of our allies knew that world-class energy is developed right here in Canada and would have been a promoter of that across the world.