Finance committee  Thank you. Could he please re-ask the question?

Finance committee  Sure. There is a Québécois songwriter called Félix Leclerc, and one of the lines in his song is “The best way to kill a man is to pay him for doing nothing”. That rings true to all of us, because the way people validate their sense of self-worth is through the work they do. We

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Finance committee  Absolutely. On the first issue, since this is an entirely indigenous-led project, we focused on the environment. Indigenous people and leaders laid down several rules about where they were prepared to go and where they were not prepared to go, and so the environmental model would

Finance committee  Yes, thank you very much. I'd like to start off by acknowledging my indigenous co-panellists and thanking the MPs who are on this standing committee for organizing this at this very important time for not just indigenous people but everybody in Canada, and indeed the world. I'd

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I have to say that both of the numbers that I have are giving me the French interpretation, so I can barely hear anybody speaking.

Transport committee  I have no reason to think that. The Salish Sea is being considered as a World Heritage Site, and yet this government is proposing to ship bitumen out of that place, which is considered on the exhaustive federal government study that was referred to by John. That had a risk profil

Transport committee  Most of this work has been done by a lady out of Vancouver named Vivian Krause. Basically, the only way she was able to get the information was to go into the tax returns of the various organizations, so her information is pretty accurate. The way the whole system works is ther

Transport committee  There's no question about it. There are a variety of organizations that have to make declarations on their income tax returns.

Transport committee  What you continually hear from environmentalists is that we should have a green economy, but first nations are asking, where is it? There's virtually no business from that. There is some tourism, and there are some other things. That's a good goal to aspire to, but it's not helpi

Transport committee  It would be so commercially ridiculous to consider doing something like that when we can take an upgraded product right out of the ground, ship that to the coast, and get Brent Crude pricing for it, so that we wouldn't be losing a $100 million a day. We've specifically tried to

Transport committee  I don't know if people in Ottawa have a real sense of the strength of feeling, both of the chiefs and, I think, of the people in the western provinces and the northern provinces. We're losing $100 million a day, by some estimates, in having no access to pipelines. Just as a prac

Transport committee  No.

Transport committee  The chiefs would not allow that. We will ship upgraded bitumen, which is lighter, so it floats on water.

Transport committee  Yes.