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the honourable member for calgary center well thank you madam speaker i hope i can be heard here thank you first of all on behalf of all people in the western canadian resource industry my constituents and all canadians of good faith who still believe that this house is a place where debates on this country's most important matters should be held openly i'm honored also to be here speaking amongst a handful of my colleagues tonight but representing the deep desire of so many of our colleagues across canada who wanted to speak this evening on this gut-wrenching decision we need to address here the rationale the repercussions and our remedial options as a country going forward keystone xl until last week it was a pipeline a pipeline that has been in the works for over 12 years a pipeline that would have connected one of canada's great valuable world-class resources directly with the market that needs this specific resource more than anything else a pipeline that like all infrastructure got better in design with time the version being built now was designed to be carbon neutral in its operation a boon to the renewable energy industry a pipeline that would have provided increased energy security to north america in the clouds of an ever more uncertain geopolitical landscape a pipeline providing valuable jobs and benefits to thousands of workers indigenous organizations and land owners in two countries a pipeline that built upon the goodwill developed between two of the world's advanced democracies in delivering sound outcomes for the health of both our nation's citizens for decades now now keystone xl is a symbol symbol of the victory of loud self-interested progressive voices overruling sound regulation and environmental science a symbol of empty political rhetoric and repetitive misinformation triumphing over an actually better environmental outcome a symbol the beneficial work undertaken and billions of dollars in good faith can be overruled by fiat without consequence but most of all for canadians a symbol of what happens when our elected federal politicians sit on their hands and fail to advocate for canada's proactive solutions for environmental advancement indigenous participation in our economies and building on our competitive strengths let's assess the very real negative outcomes that are being felt today let's remember the workers and their families the ones who trained and built a career focused on adding value and getting world-class resources to market let's remember that in the end the business we are in as politicians is about looking after people in that respect this government needs to do better with this stroke of a pen thousands of well-trained middle-class canadians will have worse outcomes in their lives let's think about those men and women for a moment now and think about how their lives have changed suddenly and in their view very nonsensically do they think this government is working for them the failure here is a lack of conservat concerted advocacy by this government on issues that matter to these workers and the technological environmentally advanced solutions they provide honorable member finished the option of castling this important project was advanced and discussed nine months ago the prospect of this cancellation became very real two months ago its possibility was crystal clear we've seen this government act on files when it felt it should be active we've seen a fulsome reaction to objectionable tariffs against our canadian aluminum and steel industries we've seen the leadership of this government take actions above and beyond accepted democratic norms in order to save jobs in one engineering company last week the workers and indigenous stakeholders in this project got the benefit of a line item on a phone call between our prime minister and the new american president that the dichotomy is quite clear in my previous work decisions such as this presented an opportunity to assess winners and losers usually presenting a path forward much has been lost here i've spoken about the workers i've spoken about indigenous reconciliation and keystone xl had equity representation from indigenous participants that would have made great steps forward in a path to economic reconciliation i've spoken about the energy security and the environmental advances that have been forwarded i've spoken about the billions of dollars and years of planning and building that will leave a piece of world-class infrastructure half finished i haven't spoken enough about the canada u.s bilateral relationship but that is a huge casualty in this decision last year we watched this government accept that it had badly negotiated a renewed north american free trade agreement real negotiators saw through our team's virtue signaling and inability to solve difficult issues i listened as our lead minister on the file stated that her greatest success was removing the energy sharing agreement between the previous text of nafta i knew then that this government did not understand the nature of the trade between our two countries the us government's decision on keystone xl shows that canada's energy trade with our dominant energy trading partner is expendable that is not comfort that is real risk can of the us trade was solidified three decades ago by leaders on both sides that understood how strong we were together this government alludes to a special relationship with the incoming u.s administration if so it needs to be utilized the initial results are discouraging if they are not solving big issues together as two leading democracies that are also independent should be clearly something has been lost the outcome here is severe for our country we've got an economy that will not grow as a result of what's happened here nearly as much as it should have our balance of trade will suffer significantly and in 2019 that number was 16 billion dollars that we took because of the differential we receive on our main resource that we export our balance of trade siphoning off canadian value to other countries is huge and is going to continue to grow jobs are being exported from canada because of these decisions work here is being cancelled workers here are being laid off all of this deserves so much more action than an indifferent shrug from this prime minister thank you madam speaker thank you before i go to questions and comments i do want to come back to the point of order that was raised in my decision uh and so i will refer members to page 617 chapter 13 page 617 of uh the house of commons third edition and uh displays exhibit and props and it specifically uh refers to says that speakers have consistently ruled that visual displays or demonstrations of any kind used by members to illustrate their remarks or emphasize their positions are out of order similarly props of any kind have always been found to be unacceptable in the house of commons and so i would just ask members to please um be very collaborative uh with the decision that i have just uh indicated and ensure that uh i know that it's a time where we are uh wearing masks to protect ourselves and to protect others and to ensure that uh the messaging on there is not um being used at all if if possible and not being used to put a point across and therefore i will go to questions and comments questions [Music] uh foreign [Music] um calgary center the the issue with of course provincial jurisdiction and diversifying economy is something that canadian government should probably not tread on in this case and i'm certain my colleague in the blockhead echo would respect that as well i think the other point we want to make here is how diversified the actual alberta economy is and we talk about transitioning energy is going to continue to be a part of our world for decades to come and a good part of that energy will continue to come as it has continuously here according to all international organizations will continue to come a good portion from fossil fuels and every indication we have is that the alberta economy alberta oil output will continue to increase finding a market is going to be the main problem otherwise we will be beholden in the future to foreign sources of oil in the world this oil is better economically the spoil oil is better environmentally and this is the transition we move towards with the technology now see you on call zen comments y'all remember for cowich and malahat langford yes uh thank you madam speaker i i remain consistently amazed um at how conservatives seem to be completely oblivious to uh where we are at the in the world at present with regards to climate change the the looming climate disaster that is heading our way and we quite literally cannot continue to go the way we're going for decades and decades but i i want to concentrate my remarks on what the conservatives are proposing to exactly do this is not exactly a secret the biden administration made clear what its decision would be with keystone xl and so are the conservatives proposing to levy trade sanctions to sue the new administration because in my opinion i mean that would just be fantastic for canada u.s relations with the new administration i just want to get clear what what are they trying to do with the new u.s administration thank you madam speaker the arnold member for calgary center well i thank my colleague for the point and yes we are very focused on how we actually decarbonize the economy including in alberta including in the energy sector and i think all efforts to advance that cause are being ignored by my colleague uh in the in the other party and i i really would hope that he pays attention to all the progress that's being made by industries across canada in addressing decarbonization and actually looking at how that actually affects the world in this project you can take a look at exactly the 20 percent reduction in co2 emissions from the oil going towards the gulf refineries as opposed to the other oil that will be refined in that location we are actually much further ahead with a zero zero co2 emission transportation network taking it from one of the world's greatest resources the alberta oil sands down to the market that processes it most efficiently and displaces foreign oil that has a much heavier environmental footprint we are losing in this environmentally canada is losing economically and the north america is losing from it from an energy security perspective thank you