Mr. Speaker, my colleague is a right-wing Conservative. He talks about freedom ad nauseam.
What always surprises me about these right-wing Conservatives is that they become communists when it comes to taking public money and sending it to the oil and gas industry, with subsidies for small modular nuclear reactors that make oil with nuclear power, or with subsidies for research and development for carbon capture. The taxpayer would even have to pay the oil and gas companies to sequester their own carbon. We are talking tens of billions of dollars over the next 10 years.
How does my colleague reconcile the fact that he repeats the word freedom every time he opens his mouth with the fact that, when it comes to pouring public money into oil and gas companies, he essentially becomes a communist?