Madam Speaker, the hon. member is an incredible advocate for fiscal sanity, common sense and actions actually matching words. He is an advocate for the energy sector and the oil and gas workers, not just in Alberta but in every single part of this country. They help fuel and power our country, and we need them more than ever.
The member is exactly right. Nine years of coercive chaos and corruption, increasing crime and scandals have Canadians wondering exactly what the heck is going on here. It is also nine years of layers of patterns of anti-energy policies, taxes and laws that have driven billions of dollars into the United States, including jobs, money and technology.
The Liberals' latest wacko plan to be the first among all oil and gas-producing jurisdictions in the world to cap oil and gas in our country helps the United States. It will send even more jobs, money, investment, technology and talent there. The truth is it helps despotic regimes, regimes that are hostile to Canada and to Canadians.
The worst part is, exactly as he said, that all of these things together have gotten Canadians to the point where they cannot find jobs, do not have hope for their future and cannot pay their bills. It is all exactly because of these policies.
Whether these guys like it or not, despite how much they have tried, the oil and gas sector remains the leading private sector investor in the Canadian economy right now. It remains Canada's biggest export. It remains the driver of jobs of all the other sectors right across this whole country, and it remains the main employer of indigenous and visible minority Canadians, who ought to be able to rely on the sustainability of their powerful paycheques long into the future.