“I want to look good by saying we'll sell lots of oil and gas. I want to cheer for a program that spends money in my riding. Update us on how that's going.”
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In this debate, Liberal MPs touted Canada selling LNG to Germany and Asia as making Canada an 'energy superpower'. One boasted an LNG project would generate nearly $30 billion in 'economic activity' - i.e. money flowing to select businesses. No substantive policy questions or concrete details were discussed.
“I want to thank my friend for asking a question that lets me look good. I went to British Columbia, so that shows we're working hard to sell even more oil and gas overseas. Everyone should cheer for that.”
“I'm going to keep repeating this good news until everyone notices I did a good thing.”