Mr. Speaker, the last pipeline infrastructure built in Canada was the Trans Mountain expansion. It cost taxpayers $34 billion.
The Parliamentary Budget Officer has said in numerous analyses that this infrastructure is not profitable. It would have to operate at full capacity over the next 40 years just to break even. My Conservative friends like to talk about the Liberals' pipe dream, but I think they have a dream too.
Building infrastructure is not profitable. It is all well and good to tell the government to get out of the way, but private companies will not build it because it is not profitable. I want my colleague to explain the Conservative dream of finding a proponent to build pipeline infrastructure.