Discussion · Government Orders
Elizabeth May Green
“Canada does not act like it owns its own oil and gas. Most of our oil and gas companies are owned by foreign interests, and our government just serves them instead of controlling our own resources.”
“Mr. Speaker, nothing that has been talked about in the last 18 months, two years or five years has had anything to do with Canada’s ownership of our own resources. We would have to go back to Peter Lougheed to find a leader who understood the principles of how to deal with a fossil fuel resource and how to control it. His first rule was to think like an owner. We do not. We think like serfs: What can we do to better serve the masters of the universe who own the oil and gas industry globally? They own Canada’s oil and gas industry, but we pretend it is Canadian. I am going to reference Gord Laxer’s 2021 report titled “Posing as Canadian”. Ninety-eight per cent of the companies in the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers are using—”
Mr. Speaker, nothing that has been talked about in the last 18 months, two years or five years has had anything to do with Canada’s ownership of our own resources. We would have to go back to Peter Lougheed to find a leader who understood the principles of how to deal with a fossil fuel resource and how to control it. His first rule was to think like an owner. We do not. We think like serfs: What can we do to better serve the masters of the universe who own the oil and gas industry globally? They own Canada’s oil and gas industry, but we pretend it is Canadian. I am going to reference Gord Laxer’s 2021 report titled “Posing as Canadian”. Ninety-eight per cent of the companies in the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers are using—