Madam Speaker, the member's industry minister spoke prior to him. She talked about the importance of learning from Trans Mountain, that we have to have a proponent for the pipeline and indigenous buy-in.
Well, here is the thing that causes a total lack of confidence on the Conservative side of the House and among Canadians. It was the current government that forced Kinder Morgan to go south, taking its $4-billion investment with it, because of the tanker ban and the permits that were required. It left, and Trans Mountain became an expense on Canadian tax dollars when there was, actually, the Western Indigenous Pipeline Group, with indigenous international oil and gas experience, that came and tried to pitch to the government that it would take on Trans Mountain. It had the buy-in of all of those along that route.
The political strategy of the Prime Minister was clearly to shut down pipelines until it became an issue where he had no choice but to turn around and appear like he supports oil and gas in Canada.