This view breaks the statement into its steps and names what each one does.
Madam Speaker, Greeting · 21 wordsit is a pleasure for me to address the House this morning and to express my strong support for Bill C-264.Greeting Claims · 12 wordsThis is a bill that would finally repeal the Liberal tanker ban.1 Positioning · 41 wordsThis is an opportunity to talk about pipeline policy in this country and to call out the slipperiness of the Liberal government. It is clear that over the last 10 years, the Conservative opposition has won the public debate on pipelines.PositioningUnearned certainty Claims · 18 wordsThere is certainly very strong public support for the construction of pipelines and other major national energy projects, Reasoning · 32 wordsand this creates the conditions in which the government faces a political imperative to try to pretend to be more supportive of energy infrastructure projects than it has been in the past. Procedure · 1 wordsHowever, ProcedureClaims · 31 wordswhile we have won the public debate around the construction of pipelines and other major energy infrastructure, the government continues to obstruct, at a policy level, actual progress on these issues. Positioning · 22 wordsWe have won the public debate, but we have not won the policy battle. That is what Bill C-264 tries to do: PositioningClaims · 17 wordscomplete policy work that certainly reflects the public demand for these kinds of projects to go forward. Procedure · 27 wordsTo understand, though, how the government says one thing and does another when it comes to pipelines, I think it is important to dig into the history.Procedure Claims · 42 wordsIf we look at the history over the last 10 or 15 years as it relates to pipelines, the government has done everything possible to obstruct pipelines and major energy infrastructure from going forward. It has also tried to do so indirectly. Positioning · 17 wordsThose who are familiar with crime films will recognize the phrase “make it look like an accident.”Positioning Claims · 14 wordsThe government has tried to kill pipelines and make it look like an accident. Procedure · 15 wordsLet us talk about where we were in 2015 when Justin Trudeau became prime minister.Procedure Claims · 39 wordsLooking back at the record of the Harper government, in 2015, four major pipelines were constructed and a fifth had been approved, the northern gateway project.2 The Liberals promised in the 2015 election to kill the northern gateway pipeline.3 Procedure · 4 wordsThey did two things: ProcedureClaims · 22 wordsfirst, they killed it directly; and second, they legislated to prohibit energy exports from the northern coast of B.C. This was designed, 4Reasoning · 14 wordsor intended, to kill the northern gateway project and the opportunities associated with it. Positioning · 14 wordsThis was a decision of the government to kill that project in two ways: PositioningClaims · 53 wordsfirst, to kill it directly; and second, to legislate to prevent those energy exports. The Liberal government subsequently passed Bill C-69, adding additional challenges and barriers for pipeline construction, 5and killed the energy east pipeline.6 It did so by applying conditions to it that had never been applied previously to other development projects. Positioning · 36 wordsEven then, the government wanted to say it was a private sector decision to kill the energy east pipeline. It changed the game by piling impossible conditions on the project and then said, “Oh, too bad.Positioning Claims · 4 wordsThe proponents killed it.” Positioning · 20 wordsThis is part of the “kill major infrastructure projects and make it look like an accident” approach of the government, PositioningClaims · 68 wordswhich is to apply legislative and other policy barriers that make it very difficult, if not impossible, for these kinds of projects to move forward. Now we have a different Prime Minister, who has written extensively, in a negative way, about the development of our energy resources, but now that he is Prime Minister, he wants people to think that he is maybe more supportive of these developments. The ask · 38 wordsThe simple thing he could do is repeal the antidevelopment rules that were put in place by his predecessor. If the Prime Minister is really different from Justin Trudeau, he could simply repeal Bill C-69 and Bill C-48.7 Claims · 11 wordsThese are two major anti-energy bills that his predecessor put forward. The ask · 7 wordsIn particular, he could repeal Bill C-48, Claims · 9 wordswhich is the bill regarding the tanker exclusion zone. Procedure · 7 wordsThat is the bill that Bill C-264, ProcedureClaims · 7 wordswhich we are debating today, would repeal. The ask · 19 wordsIf the Prime Minister is sincere about getting pipelines built, he could simply vote in favour of this bill, Positioning · 10 wordsor he could have moved to repeal Bill C-48 earlier.Positioning Claims · 118 wordsHowever, the approach the Liberal government has taken has not been, notably, to repeal the barriers that were put in place by his predecessor to prevent energy development. Instead, the Liberals brought us Bill C-5, 8which was the option for the government to approve, in exceptional circumstances, that some projects would not be subject to the rules that apply to every other project. Instead of simply removing the barriers that prevent development, they created a process in which those barriers that prevent development from moving forward are still in place, but if someone wants to build a project, they could go, cap in hand, to the government to ask It would refer them to this Major Projects Office. Procedure · 16 wordsThat will look at the project, and it will be designated and reviewed by various panels.Procedure Reasoning · 27 wordsMaybe at the end of it, they might get exceptional treatment for one project, even though the barriers would remain in place for all the other projects. Positioning · 16 wordsIf we could build major projects with red tape, the government would be all over it, PositioningProcedure · 8 wordsbecause that is what it has been building: ProcedureClaims · 37 wordsmore and more red tape. They try to make it look like the Liberals are really trying, that they are going to add more offices, say that people can send their project here, refer it over here, Procedure · 10 wordsand then this panel will take a look at it.Procedure Reasoning · 25 wordsThen maybe at the end of the day, they might create exemptions to the framework that was designed to prevent these projects from going forward. The ask · 36 wordsConservatives have a much simpler solution, which is to get rid of the red tape and get rid of the laws that prevent these major projects from going forward so that we can build things again. Claims · 85 wordsThis is what I think the public wants. The public wants major energy projects to go forward. We saw great news out of British Columbia.9 It is a strong endorsement by the voters of British Columbia for a government that is committed to creating jobs and building opportunity. There is a government now in British Columbia that sees how we can prosper together as a country instead of trying to make B.C. the barrier to exports that the previous NDP government wanted it to be. Procedure · 5 wordsWe see in that result, ProcedureReasoning · 19 wordsand in the expression of voters across the country, a desire for these kinds of projects to move forward. Positioning · 7 wordsThe government is slippery and savvy politically.Positioning Claims · 64 wordsThe government knows it does not want to challenge directly this desire for major projects to go forward, so instead, it is just trying to make it look really difficult. The government wants to leave in place these barriers. It wants to add on red tape. It wants to promise that it might allow workarounds in certain situations if things are designated as such. The ask · 34 wordsThe simple thing that the government can and should do to make it so much easier for major projects in energy, pipelines and other major projects, to go forward, is vote for Bill C-264. Claims · 33 wordsIt would not add more laws. It would repeal a previous law that was put in place to block development. This is going to be a clear test for the government on Wednesday. Procedure · 18 wordsWhen we vote on Bill C-264, we will see whether individual members of the government from energy-producing regions, ProcedureClaims · 52 wordsas well as members from other regions, are prepared to vote in favour of a bill that would clear away red tape and create opportunities for major projects to go forward, or if they will vote to leave that red tape in place as an excuse to say they would like to, Positioning · 6 wordsbut it is just really difficult.Positioning Reasoning · 13 wordsIt is really difficult because we have a law that makes it difficult. Claims · 26 wordsThe building of major infrastructure could happen much more easily if we had not had governments for 11 years that tried to prevent it from happening. Positioning · 9 wordsLet us underline that it is the same people.Positioning An hon. member: You guys have to get over Trudeau. Garnett Genuis: Claims · 30 wordsMadam Speaker, the member for Winnipeg North, who is heckling me right now, has been here for a long time. He is not new. He voted for all these measures. Procedure · 27 wordsIn fact, I asked the Liberal member for Calgary Confederation, who is new, when he was first elected, if he would have voted in favour of C-48, 10ProcedureClaims · 9 wordsand he said yes, and he is from Calgary. Positioning · 27 wordsIt is the same group of people, and in the cases where there are newer members, they profess to think the same way as the previous ones.Positioning Claims · 10 wordsThe member said we are talking too much about Trudeau. Positioning · 33 wordsI would be very happy to turn the page on the disastrous years of Justin Trudeau. Does the member know how we can turn the page on the disastrous record of Justin Trudeau?Positioning The ask · 8 wordsWe can vote in favour of this bill, Claims · 12 wordswhich would repeal a centrepiece part of Justin Trudeau’s radical antidevelopment agenda. The ask · 17 wordsThe Prime Minister can show he is different on Wednesday by voting in favour of Bill C-264. Reasoning · 52 wordsIf he were to vote in favour of Bill C-264, I will say that maybe there is some real change, to coin a phrase, but if he were to vote for the Justin Trudeau policy on Wednesday, we will have to conclude that they are doubling down on the same energy policy. Claims · 31 wordsYes, they are trying to nuance it in the communications in light of the fact that we have won the public debate on this issue, but they have not really changed. Positioning · 9 wordsAgain, we will see in the vote on Wednesday.Positioning
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