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Madam Speaker, I listened with interest

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 to my hon. colleague's speech.

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As with almost all of the Liberal speakers today,

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they seemed to mix up consultation for action.

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They seem to use those phrases interchangeably.

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The reality is that there is no action whatsoever.

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Maybe he misspoke, but based on

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 the government's record, I don't think so.

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He said, quote "we will stand by as a government."

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That is exactly what they are doing.

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They are standing by as a government.

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They inherited a situation where

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 Northern Gateway had been approved,

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before they came to power.

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Where Energy East was well on its way.

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What did they do? They cancelled Northern Gateway.

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They changed the rules to make it impossible

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 for Energy East to move forward.

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My question for the hon. member is:

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Why should anyone believe that

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they will actually take action this time?

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Madam Speaker, I thank my hon. colleague from Alberta.

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He and I have worked considerably on the cause of autism

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 in raising awareness of it in my riding.

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To directly answer his comments,

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the first thing we had to do was

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rebuild confidence in the institutions,

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something that the Conservatives

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under 10 years of their rule eroded.

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They eroded the confidence

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in approvals for getting pipelines done,

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so we had to balance the economy

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and the environment to work hand in hand.

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That was one of the first things we did.

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We put in an interim set of guiding principles.

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Yes, we approved TMX, and yes, it will be built,

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and yes, we will bring oil, bitumen, to tidewater.

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We will export it. We will reduce that differential,

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ensuring we get the world price, not the discount,

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which is costing us literally a billion

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 or a billion and a half dollars

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depending on who you look at in terms of research,

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a month in lost forgone revenues and taxes.

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We will get that done as a government

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because we have listened,

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we have consulted,

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 and we have put in place a set of measures

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that bring confidence to the process,

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something the other side failed to do in 10 years.