Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has apparently not read our Constitution, which indicates that the federal government alone has jurisdiction over pipelines that cross borders. Let me quote subsection 92(10), which says that federal jurisdiction applies to “Works and Undertakings connecting the Province with any other...or extending beyond the Limits of the Province”.
In other words, it is exclusively the federal government's decision whether to approve a pipeline. It was the federal government that blocked the last pipeline.
Can he confirm once and for all, is he deciding, unilaterally, to give veto to the NDP B.C. premier, to block a project that Canada needs?