Madam Speaker, certainly we are very blessed in this country to have the natural resource sector. The hydrocarbon sector ensures that transfers to various provinces are possible. It ensures that health care in this country is possible. In fact, given the new Trump administration coming in, thank God we have the energy sector, because the Americans depend on that energy; in fact it makes their gas cheaper. If only we would have had a government in the last nine years with the commitment and the drive to actually fully develop these resources and that had not tried to stop them every step of the way.
The only reason the Liberals had to buy the pipeline is that the regulatory regime they brought in was so toxic that we could not get private industry to do it. It left, high-tailed it out of Canada, because the government has made it so difficult to get anything built in this country so that this country can actually use its blessed natural resources to pay for all these wonderful things. Thank goodness we have the natural resource sector, because it might just be the thing that is going to save us from the 25% tariffs.