Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2025-09-23 18:45:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Pat Kelly (Calgary Crowfoot, CPC)",
        "fr": "Pat Kelly (Calgary Crowfoot, PCC)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"8878165\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, when the Liberal government was first elected in 2015, it killed 16 major resource projects and chased $176 billion out of the Canadian economy. This resulted in thousands of lost jobs in my city alone, and Bill <a data-HoCid=\"9630600\" href=\"/bills/42-1/C-69/\" title=\"An Act to enact the Impact Assessment Act and the Canadian Energy Regulator Act, to amend the Navigation Protection Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts\">C-69</a> continues to make it impossible to build the pipelines needed to unleash our resources and restore our economic independence.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8878166\" data-originallang=\"en\"> I asked in June whether the <a data-HoCid=\"314774\" href=\"/politicians/mark-carney/\" title=\"Mark Carney\">Prime Minister</a> would commit on that day to cancelling Justin Trudeau's \u201cno more pipelines\u201d bill, Bill <a data-HoCid=\"9630600\" href=\"/bills/42-1/C-69/\" title=\"An Act to enact the Impact Assessment Act and the Canadian Energy Regulator Act, to amend the Navigation Protection Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts\">C-69</a>. The response from the new <a data-HoCid=\"318668\" href=\"/politicians/tim-hodgson/\" title=\"Tim Hodgson\">minister</a> was to say:</p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"8878167\" data-originallang=\"en\"> We will support new pipelines if there is a national consensus in favour of them. With our country's facing American tariffs, we must strengthen our energy and natural resources sectors. There is no question that energy is Canada's power. We will help build the strongest economy in the G7, create jobs for Canadians and give the best cards to our negotiators at the negotiating table. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8878168\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Canada's new government will win this trade war. </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"8878169\" data-originallang=\"en\">There is a lot to unpack in that response. To start with, the <a data-HoCid=\"318668\" href=\"/politicians/tim-hodgson/\" title=\"Tim Hodgson\">minister</a> said, \u201cif there is a national consensus\u201d. They do not have a consensus even in their own caucus about pipelines. How are they going to have a consensus? The word \u201cconsensus\u201d means that every single person agrees, and that is not a reasonable bar for the government, or any government, to set for whether there will be something as critical to our economy as pipelines to be built.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8878170\" data-originallang=\"en\">He talked about \u201cthe strongest economy in the G7\u201d. Canada arguably has, and actually this is probably not even arguable but instead a fact, the weakest economy in the G7 right now. We have declining per capita GDP as we speak, and over the last number of years, while the government has been in power, Canadians have been getting poorer. Per capita GDP has been declining. This is a decline in the living standard of Canadians that the government has presided over.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8878171\" data-originallang=\"en\">Liberals are talking about jobs and about the importance of energy, but the government has spent literally 10 years chasing capital out of Canada, chasing jobs out of Canada and doing everything it can to strangle the energy industry in Canada. Therefore it is hard to take at face value the mixed words about claiming to support energy, when its response is, for example, to bring in a bill, Bill <a data-HoCid=\"13547622\" href=\"/bills/45-1/C-5/\" title=\"An Act to enact the Free Trade and Labour Mobility in Canada Act and the Building Canada Act\">C-5</a>, which gives the government the power to interfere politically, to decide and to pick and choose when it wants to dispense with the rule of its own laws and not apply the laws it created that are preventing private investors from building infrastructure in this country.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8878172\" data-originallang=\"en\">The government could just do as I asked in my question, or what we have been calling for for the last 10 years: Get rid of Bill <a data-HoCid=\"9630600\" href=\"/bills/42-1/C-69/\" title=\"An Act to enact the Impact Assessment Act and the Canadian Energy Regulator Act, to amend the Navigation Protection Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts\">C-69</a>, get rid of Bill <a data-HoCid=\"8936657\" href=\"/bills/42-1/C-48/\" title=\"An Act respecting the regulation of vessels that transport crude oil or persistent oil to or from ports or marine installations located along British Columbia's north coast\">C-48</a>, get rid of the emissions cap, get rid of the industrial carbon tax, get rid of the EV mandates, repeal the so-called clean fuel standard it brought in, rein in its spending, bring in a balanced budget, restore the public finances of the country, establish conditions upon which private investment can once again flourish in this country and get Canadians back to work in the energy industry so we can supply clean, reliable energy to the world.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"8878165\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, quand le gouvernement lib\u00e9ral a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu pour la premi\u00e8re fois en 2015, il a annul\u00e9 16 grands projets d'exploitation des ressources, faisant ainsi perdre 176 milliards de dollars \u00e0 l'\u00e9conomie canadienne et des milliers d'emplois dans ma ville. Pourtant, la loi <a data-HoCid=\"9630600\" href=\"/bills/42-1/C-69/\" title=\"An Act to enact the Impact Assessment Act and the Canadian Energy Regulator Act, to amend the Navigation Protection Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts\">C\u201169</a> continue d'emp\u00eacher la construction des pipelines n\u00e9cessaires pour mettre \u00e0 profit nos ressources et pour r\u00e9tablir notre ind\u00e9pendance \u00e9conomique.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8878166\" data-originallang=\"en\">En juin, j'ai demand\u00e9 si le <a data-HoCid=\"314774\" href=\"/politicians/mark-carney/\" title=\"Mark Carney\">premier ministre</a> s'engagerait ce jour-l\u00e0 \u00e0 abolir la loi <a data-HoCid=\"9630600\" href=\"/bills/42-1/C-69/\" title=\"An Act to enact the Impact Assessment Act and the Canadian Energy Regulator Act, to amend the Navigation Protection Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts\">C\u201169</a>, la loi anti-pipelines de Justin Trudeau. La r\u00e9ponse du nouveau <a data-HoCid=\"318668\" href=\"/politicians/tim-hodgson/\" title=\"Tim Hodgson\">ministre</a> a \u00e9t\u00e9 la suivante:</p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"8878167\" data-originallang=\"en\"> [...] nous appuierons les nouveaux pipelines s'il y a un consensus national en leur faveur. Dans le contexte o\u00f9 notre pays fait face \u00e0 des droits de douane am\u00e9ricains, nous devons renforcer nos secteurs de l'\u00e9nergie et des ressources naturelles. Personne ne doute que l'\u00e9nergie est la force du Canada. Nous allons prendre les mesures n\u00e9cessaires pour b\u00e2tir l'\u00e9conomie la plus forte du G7, cr\u00e9er des emplois pour les Canadiens et donner les meilleurs atouts \u00e0 nos n\u00e9gociateurs pour qu'ils puissent faire leur travail. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8878168\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Le nouveau gouvernement du Canada sortira victorieux de cette guerre commerciale. </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"8878169\" data-originallang=\"en\">Il y a beaucoup d'\u00e9l\u00e9ments \u00e0 d\u00e9cortiquer dans cette r\u00e9ponse. Pour commencer, le <a data-HoCid=\"318668\" href=\"/politicians/tim-hodgson/\" title=\"Tim Hodgson\">ministre</a> a dit: \u00ab s'il y a un consensus national \u00bb. M\u00eame au sein de son caucus, il n'y a pas de consensus sur les pipelines. Comment les lib\u00e9raux arriveront-ils \u00e0 un consensus? Le mot \u00ab consensus \u00bb signifie que tout le monde est d'accord. \u00c9tablir si on construira ou non des pipelines, qui sont absolument vitaux \u00e0 l'\u00e9conomie canadienne, en se fondant sur de tels crit\u00e8res n'est tout simplement pas raisonnable de la part du gouvernement actuel, ou de tout autre gouvernement.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8878170\" data-originallang=\"en\">Il a parl\u00e9 de \u00ab l'\u00e9conomie la plus forte du G7 \u00bb. \u00c0 l'heure actuelle, on pourrait dire que le Canada a l'\u00e9conomie la plus faible du G7. En v\u00e9rit\u00e9, il n'y a rien \u00e0 discuter l\u00e0-dessus parce que c'est un fait. Aujourd'hui, le PIB par habitant est en baisse. Au cours des derni\u00e8res ann\u00e9es, depuis que le gouvernement est au pouvoir, les Canadiens ne cessent de s'appauvrir. Le PIB par habitant diminue. Sous le gouvernement actuel, le niveau de vie des Canadiens se d\u00e9t\u00e9riore.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8878171\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Les lib\u00e9raux parlent d'emplois et de l'importance du secteur de l'\u00e9nergie, mais voil\u00e0 dix ans que le gouvernement fait fuir les capitaux et les emplois \u00e0 l'ext\u00e9rieur du pays et qu'il fait tout pour freiner le d\u00e9veloppement de l'industrie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique au Canada. Alors, quand les lib\u00e9raux disent appuyer ce secteur, c'est difficile de les croire sur parole. Prenons, par exemple, le projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"13547622\" href=\"/bills/45-1/C-5/\" title=\"An Act to enact the Free Trade and Labour Mobility in Canada Act and the Building Canada Act\">C\u20115</a>, qui donne au gouvernement le pouvoir d'intervenir sur le plan politique et de d\u00e9cider s'il se plie ou non aux exigences des lois qu'il a lui-m\u00eame mises en place, lois qui emp\u00eachent les investisseurs priv\u00e9s de construire des infrastructures au pays.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8878172\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le gouvernement pourrait tout simplement faire ce que j'ai demand\u00e9 dans ma question ou ce que nous demandons depuis dix ans: se d\u00e9barrasser des projets de loi <a data-HoCid=\"9630600\" href=\"/bills/42-1/C-69/\" title=\"An Act to enact the Impact Assessment Act and the Canadian Energy Regulator Act, to amend the Navigation Protection Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts\">C\u201169</a> et <a data-HoCid=\"8936657\" href=\"/bills/42-1/C-48/\" title=\"An Act respecting the regulation of vessels that transport crude oil or persistent oil to or from ports or marine installations located along British Columbia's north coast\">C\u201148</a>, supprimer le plafond d'\u00e9missions, \u00e9liminer la tarification du carbone dans le secteur industriel, annuler les exigences relatives aux v\u00e9hicules \u00e9lectriques et abolir la norme sur les carburants propres qu'il a lui-m\u00eame instaur\u00e9e. Il pourrait aussi r\u00e9duire les d\u00e9penses, pr\u00e9senter un budget \u00e9quilibr\u00e9, remettre de l\u2019ordre dans les finances publiques et cr\u00e9er un climat favorable aux investissements priv\u00e9s. C'est ainsi que les travailleurs canadiens pourront recommencer \u00e0 travailler dans le secteur de l'\u00e9nergie et que nous pourrons fournir au monde une \u00e9nergie propre et fiable.</p>"
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    "url": "/debates/2025/9/23/pat-kelly-1/",
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    "source_id": "13136330",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Adjournment Proceedings",
        "fr": "Motion D'Ajournement"
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    "h2": {
        "en": "Natural Resources",
        "fr": "Les ressources naturelles"
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