Madam Speaker, I will respond very quickly, because my hon. colleague covered a lot.
First of all, the Atlantic accord is a joint jurisdiction, so while the Conservatives like to bring up the Impact Assessment Act, it does not apply in the context of the Atlantic accord. Therefore I will correct the record or certainly help educate the member on that particular point.
As it relates to the Conservatives, the irony of course, and the level of nuance, is that the government has to be mindful of the global transition that is happening on energy. We chose to make an investment. I will remind the hon. member that Stephen Harper and the Conservative Party did nothing to actually expand access to our natural resource market with things like pipelines. That never happened.
Therefore we can have an honest and reasonable conversation about whether or not the government should have gotten involved or not. I believe that it made the right choice, that the costs associated with it will be recovered and that the investment it made is in the national interest. The member represents western Canada. One would think he would get up and support those types of decisions that have been made by the government.