1 00:00:00,690 --> 00:00:03,156 Madam Speaker, I listened with interest 2 00:00:03,180 --> 00:00:05,180 to my hon. colleague's speech. 3 00:00:05,558 --> 00:00:08,786 As with almost all of the Liberal speakers today, 4 00:00:08,810 --> 00:00:14,240 they seemed to mix up consultation for action. 5 00:00:14,264 --> 00:00:17,303 They seem to use those phrases interchangeably. 6 00:00:17,439 --> 00:00:20,552 The reality is that there is no action whatsoever. 7 00:00:23,694 --> 00:00:27,714 Maybe he misspoke, but based on 8 00:00:27,738 --> 00:00:29,708 the government's record, I don't think so. 9 00:00:29,709 --> 00:00:32,404 He said, quote "we will stand by as a government." 10 00:00:33,262 --> 00:00:34,880 That is exactly what they are doing. 11 00:00:34,905 --> 00:00:36,967 They are standing by as a government. 12 00:00:38,226 --> 00:00:40,168 They inherited a situation where 13 00:00:40,192 --> 00:00:42,192 Northern Gateway had been approved, 14 00:00:42,220 --> 00:00:44,059 before they came to power. 15 00:00:44,083 --> 00:00:46,083 Where Energy East was well on its way. 16 00:00:46,130 --> 00:00:47,832 What did they do? They cancelled Northern Gateway. 17 00:00:48,014 --> 00:00:50,304 They changed the rules to make it impossible 18 00:00:50,328 --> 00:00:51,910 for Energy East to move forward. 19 00:00:51,911 --> 00:00:54,004 My question for the hon. member is: 20 00:00:54,065 --> 00:00:56,080 Why should anyone believe that 21 00:00:56,105 --> 00:00:58,104 they will actually take action this time? 22 00:01:02,459 --> 00:01:04,427 Madam Speaker, I thank my hon. colleague from Alberta. 23 00:01:04,662 --> 00:01:08,433 He and I have worked considerably on the cause of autism 24 00:01:08,471 --> 00:01:10,471 in raising awareness of it in my riding. 25 00:01:10,619 --> 00:01:12,751 To directly answer his comments, 26 00:01:12,775 --> 00:01:13,972 the first thing we had to do was 27 00:01:13,996 --> 00:01:15,996 rebuild confidence in the institutions, 28 00:01:16,493 --> 00:01:17,867 something that the Conservatives 29 00:01:17,891 --> 00:01:20,234 under 10 years of their rule eroded. 30 00:01:20,684 --> 00:01:21,664 They eroded the confidence 31 00:01:21,688 --> 00:01:23,688 in approvals for getting pipelines done, 32 00:01:23,751 --> 00:01:25,570 so we had to balance the economy 33 00:01:25,594 --> 00:01:27,594 and the environment to work hand in hand. 34 00:01:27,730 --> 00:01:29,086 That was one of the first things we did. 35 00:01:29,111 --> 00:01:31,273 We put in an interim set of guiding principles. 36 00:01:31,297 --> 00:01:34,531 Yes, we approved TMX, and yes, it will be built, 37 00:01:34,555 --> 00:01:39,167 and yes, we will bring oil, bitumen, to tidewater. 38 00:01:39,191 --> 00:01:41,865 We will export it. We will reduce that differential, 39 00:01:41,889 --> 00:01:46,717 ensuring we get the world price, not the discount, 40 00:01:46,742 --> 00:01:48,865 which is costing us literally a billion 41 00:01:48,889 --> 00:01:50,519 or a billion and a half dollars 42 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:53,073 depending on who you look at in terms of research, 43 00:01:53,123 --> 00:01:55,950 a month in lost forgone revenues and taxes. 44 00:01:55,974 --> 00:01:57,891 We will get that done as a government 45 00:01:57,915 --> 00:01:59,467 because we have listened, 46 00:01:59,468 --> 00:02:00,894 we have consulted, 47 00:02:00,918 --> 00:02:03,036 and we have put in place a set of measures 48 00:02:03,193 --> 00:02:05,362 that bring confidence to the process, 49 00:02:05,386 --> 00:02:08,708 something the other side failed to do in 10 years.