Mr. Speaker, this week, Imperial Oil announced it will lay off 20% of its workforce and relocate its headquarters out of Calgary. The stampede city gets the shaft again.
The Prime Minister has the power to eliminate Bill C-48 and Bill C-69, the emissions cap and the industrial carbon tax, but he does not care about the average Canadian. He does not have to tell his family he does not know how they will pay the mortgage or put groceries on the table. To add insult to injury, it is rumoured that Imperial's headquarters are being sold off to none other than Brookfield. Not only did the Prime Minister cause this demise, but he could also be profiting from it. The truth comes out.
The Prime Minister does not give a rip about Calgary, does not give a rip about Alberta or, for that matter, Canada. The bad news for him is that my Conservative colleagues and I still do, and we will not retreat until the promise of Canada is restored.