This view breaks the statement into its steps and names what each one does.
Mr. Speaker, Greeting · 21 wordsit is always an honour to stand up in this House and speak on behalf of the residents of Saskatoon West.Greeting Claims · 12 wordsToday, we are speaking about Bill C-39, the building Canada strong act. Positioning · 47 wordsI think everybody in our country, including those in the Liberal government, agrees that 11 years of the current government has left Canada lacking when it comes to investment, lacking when it comes to jobs and the economy and lacking when it comes to GDP per person.1PositioningUnearned certainty Reasoning · 18 wordsWe need to do everything we can to get more business activity and more investment in this country. Aside · 10 wordsThe building Canada strong act sounds very familiar to me.Aside Positioning · 18 wordsIf we go back about a year and a half to the last election, what happened right after?Positioning Procedure · 4 wordsWe heard these words: ProcedureClaims · 17 wordsWe need to build at speeds never seen before. It is much like we are hearing today. Aside · 7 wordsThere is a lot of déjà vu.Aside Claims · 14 wordsMembers will recall that at that time, the government came forward with Bill C-5.2 Procedure · 10 wordsThe government’s website, even today, says this about Bill C-5: ProcedureClaims · 33 wordsCanada must build critical new infrastructure at speeds not seen in generations. This includes the infrastructure to diversify our trading relationships and to become an energy superpower in both clean and conventional energies. Aside · 3 wordsThat is great.Aside Claims · 59 wordsThe government needed, at that time, to get this bill through the House and pass it immediately so we could create the Major Projects Office and create projects of national interest, because this was urgent for “speeds not seen in generations”. This House did that. This House debated the bill relatively quickly and passed it.3 We rushed it through. Positioning · 3 wordsWhat was accomplished?Positioning Claims · 32 wordsWe have bureaucrats in place. They are all getting paid and probably getting bonuses too. Five hundred projects have been submitted, 4so people in the industries stepped up with lots of ideas. Procedure · 1 wordsHowever, ProcedureClaims · 56 wordswhile the member across the aisle said there were 24 projects, I saw 18 on the website that have been considered by the office.5 Just last week, the very first one squeaked its way through the office, 6but it has not started yet. The actual results of this office are that zero projects have been built.7 Aside · 12 wordsI find it kind of amusing that the solution is another bill.Aside Claims · 15 wordsLast year, we had the Building Canada Act.8 This is the building Canada strong act, Aside · 30 wordsand I can only assume that next year we are going to have the building Canada even stronger act to fix all the problems that have not been fixed here.Aside Positioning · 7 wordsThe government is about talk, not results, PositioningReasoning · 18 wordsand Canadians need actual construction jobs, need actual work and need money so they can pay their bills. Claims · 17 wordsAs I said, with respect to Bill C-5, there were 500 project applications, and only one cleared. Procedure · 15 wordsI want to talk about the difference between a Conservative approach and a Liberal approach.Procedure Positioning · 167 wordsThe Liberal approach is all about control. The Liberals will not let the private sector do its thing. The Liberals want the private sector to come to them. They want people in the private sector to come begging to their offices, saying, “Please, sir, we would like to build this project.” They like the view of control. They like the ability to say yes and no. They like it when people come to them essentially begging to do things, and they like to be able to say no, yes, no, yes, to basically pick the projects. The Conservative approach is very different. Our approach is to get government out of the way and level the playing field. We need to let the private sector do what it does best. People in the private sector analyze projects. They look at the benefits, look at the costs and look at the implications on the environment and other things, and they make their decisions. Those decisions actually benefit all Canadians, PositioningReasoning · 94 wordsbecause they create jobs, they create work and they create paycheques. We need to put guardrails in place, obviously, so there have to be environmental protections and there has to be a taxation system that works, but it needs to be predictable, fair and timely. If people meet the standards as laid out by the guardrails, then their project should be approved. They do not need to come begging to the government to get it approved; they can just go ahead and do it. The result of that is that more projects get built. Positioning · 13 wordsThe Liberals like to pick winners and losers. Conservatives want everyone to win.Positioning Claims · 16 wordsAs a result, the Liberals have one project now slowly moving its way through the system. Positioning · 13 wordsConservatives would have hundreds of projects by now that would be moving forward.Positioning Procedure · 11 wordsHow would we do that? We have said it many times.Procedure Promise · 41 wordsWe would repeal Bill C-69, the no more pipelines act. We would repeal Bill C-48, the tanker ban. We would repeal the industrial carbon tax and the clean fuel standard. We would establish predictable, time-limited assessment reviews with a one-and-done approach. Reasoning · 15 wordsThe one-and-done approach is really important to this because it is one project, one review. Promise · 58 wordsIt is a simple application, a firm decision timeline and predictable milestones, with a six-month approval or, in some cases, when there is an extremely complicated case, a one-year approval. We would maintain our safety and environmental standards, but we would put a predictable process in place for businesses so that they know what they are up against. Reasoning · 7 wordsWhat we need is private investor confidence. Claims · 10 wordsThat is what is lacking in our country right now. Positioning · 18 wordsWe need permanent fixes to the bureaucracy and red tape that have been created by this 11-year-old government.Positioning Reasoning · 20 wordsWe need to create stability and predictability so that investors can make their decisions knowing what the future will hold. Claims · 14 wordsThere are potentially billions of dollars in projects waiting to be done in Canada. Reasoning · 29 wordsWe need them, and our workers need them. We need our national income to grow so that as the cost of everything goes up, our paycheques rise with it. Claims · 3 wordsThey have not. Procedure · 3 wordsWe see that.Procedure Claims · 34 wordsAll of us were in our ridings last week. I am sure members talked to many people who struggle from day to day, more people than ever before and people we would not expect.Partly on point Reasoning · 12 wordsThis is part of the answer, to have construction and have investment, Positioning · 16 wordsbut that is not happening under the government, and it will not happen under Bill C-39.Positioning Claims · 22 wordsWe have capital on the sidelines because of uncertainty. Businesses have money to spend, but they are not spending it in Canada. Reasoning · 9 wordsWe also need private proponents for commercially viable projects, Procedure · 10 wordsand I will talk more about that in a second.Procedure Reasoning · 10 wordsWe do not need taxpayer subsidies. We need investor confidence. Procedure · 9 wordsLet us talk about the Pacific link pipeline announcement.9Procedure Claims · 15 wordsThis is the very first project of national interest out of the Major Projects Office. Positioning · 6 wordsGuess what it does not have.Positioning Claims · 7 wordsIt does not have a private proponent. Positioning · 5 wordsWho is paying for it?Positioning Claims · 4 wordsIt is the taxpayer. Positioning · 8 wordsWho is taking the risk on the project?Positioning Claims · 4 wordsIt is the taxpayer. Positioning · 27 wordsHow can it be that the Prime Minister himself has encouraged it to get built and has supposedly cleared the pathway, yet there is no private proponent?Positioning Reasoning · 23 wordsThat tells us that something is definitely not right in the system, and that the bureaucracy and red tape have not been eliminated. Claims · 14 wordsIt is government money that is going to be spent on this much-needed project. Procedure · 5 wordsDo not get me wrong; ProcedureReasoning · 14 wordswe need this project for the sake of our country to grow our country, Claims · 9 wordsbut it is the taxpayers taking all the risks, Reasoning · 20 wordsand that should not be. We need to get government out of the way and let builders do the building. Claims · 15 wordsIn Saskatchewan, these impacts are very real. Our economy in Saskatchewan is based on resources.Partly on point Procedure · 8 wordsI just want to single out food production.Procedure Claims · 40 wordsWe produce grain and potash in Saskatchewan, and this directly impacts people at the grocery store. It impacts Canadians and people all around the world. What is critical in those two industries, grain and potash, is railways, roads and ports. Reasoning · 8 wordsAny bottlenecks become a problem for our customers.Partly on point Positioning · 13 wordsWhat is needed in order to make farms, railways, roads and ports work?Positioning Claims · 38 wordsIt is diesel fuel. Diesel fuel is consumed in farming, trucking and railways, in everything. Higher fuel costs result directly in higher costs to the consumer. That is why we have put forward the emergency fuel relief plan.10 Promise · 67 wordsWe want to eliminate all federal taxes on diesel sales until at least Canada Day next year. We want to scrap diesel production taxes by permanently eliminating the federal industrial carbon tax and the clean fuel standard. We want to eliminate the diesel price gap between the United States and Canada within five years. We also need to create emergency permits for diesel refineries, storage and transportation. Reasoning · 7 wordsWe need to get the industry going. Promise · 21 wordsWe need to allow businesses to deduct that and build a strategic refined petroleum reserve to protect Canadians during supply reductions. Reasoning · 18 wordsThe strategic fuel reserve is important because as the price of oil skyrockets, we need stability for Canadians. Claims · 28 wordsCanada is the only country in the G7 that does not have an oil stockpile to release from.11 The Prime Minister has explicitly rejected our calls for this. Aside · 3 wordsIt is funny, AsideClaims · 95 wordsbecause earlier this year, the Liberals promised 23 million additional barrels of oil, 12but we do not have them to give. We do not have a stockpile. There is no way that we can give that. In fact, Canada’s energy production actually dropped by five million barrels after the Prime Minister made that announcement.13 Now the G7 is going to release another 100 million barrels over the next four months, including diesel, 14and Canada cannot play. We cannot play in that game, because we do not have the fuel to be able to do that. Reasoning · 5 wordsWe should be the solution. Claims · 11 wordsWe have the third- or fourth-largest oil reserves in the world.15 Reasoning · 14 wordsWe should be the solution to energy instability, not be held victim to it.Off point Procedure · 9 wordsI just want to highlight a couple of things.Procedure Positioning · 17 wordsThe Liberal plan is bureaucracy and red tape. That is the plan we are seeing here today.Positioning Claims · 5 wordsThere are no tangible results. Positioning · 12 wordsThere is lots of talk about this, that and the other thing, PositioningClaims · 4 wordsbut no actual jobs. Reasoning · 5 wordsCanadians need jobs and paycheques, Claims · 9 wordsand they are not getting that from this plan. Promise · 34 wordsThe Conservative plan is to have one project, one review and six-month approvals and to eliminate Bill C-69, repeal Bill C-48, end the industrial carbon tax and get rid of the clean fuel standard. Positioning · 26 wordsThese are real, practical solutions that could be made to get government out of the way, eliminate bureaucracy and bring stability back to the private sector.Positioning Claims · 20 wordsIt is investing in war zones right now. It is investing its money elsewhere. It is not coming to Canada. Reasoning · 23 wordsWe need that money to come into Canada so that it can take the risks, invest in these projects and create the jobs. Aside · 16 wordsHopefully, in a year we will not be talking about a building Canada even stronger act.Aside
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