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Question period dealt with getting Canadian energy to foreign markets. Conservatives asked the government to lift the oil tanker ban, saying a Canadian company wants to ship 250,000 barrels a day through Prince Rupert, which would create jobs and reduce reliance on the United States. Liberal ministers replied that the government is working with Alberta, British Columbia and First Nations to sell Canadian energy abroad, and cited major investments by companies such as Shell, Equinor and Petronas, as well as projects like Coastal GasLink and LNG Canada. No new summary points were needed beyond this exchange.Written by AI from the debate. Updated .

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Shannon Stubbs

Conservative

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“A Canadian company wants to ship 250,000 barrels of oil a day to Asia through British Columbia. This would create Canadian jobs and end our reliance on the U.S. The government's ban on oil exports is stopping it. I want the government to end this ban so we can sell Canadian oil to the world.”
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Mr. Speaker, B.C.’s new Conservative premier wants to build out ports and rail to get Canadian energy to global markets. Strathcona Resources proposes to ship 250,000 barrels of Canadian oil a day through Prince Rupert. It is a Canadian company, Canadian oil, Canadian jobs and a direct deepwater route to Asia, but the Liberals’ job-killing Canadian oil exports ban blocks it. Will the Liberals finally get out of the way, repeal Bill C-48, cut dependence on the U.S. and let Canadians sell Canadian oil to the world?

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Tim Hodgson

Liberal
“We are working with Alberta, British Columbia, and First Nations to sell Canadian energy and resources to the world. The Conservatives want to fight with Indigenous people. They should work with us instead.”
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Mr. Speaker, as I said earlier, we are working with Alberta, we are working with British Columbia and we are working with first nations to sell Canadian oil to the world. We are doing it. We are selling electricity. We are selling oil. We are selling hydro. We are selling nuclear. We are selling copper. This is all in partnership with indigenous people. They want to fight with indigenous people. Why do they not stop fighting and start building with us?

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Shannon Stubbs

Conservative
“The Liberals are hurting Canada by stopping our energy exports. Smaller companies have shut down and big foreign companies took their money elsewhere. I want the government to support our plan to end the oil shipping ban so Canada can export its oil.”
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Mr. Speaker, no other major energy producer in the world derails and stops its own exports like the Liberals do to Canada. During the last antidevelopment decade, smaller companies got killed. Multinationals moved investment out but got golden handshakes from the Liberals. Canadian-owned Strathcona invested more in Canada and does not want tax dollars. If the Liberals mean a single word about making Canada an energy superpower, will they support the Conservative plan to repeal their shipping ban to export Canadian oil so Canada can be self-reliant, affordable and united?

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Tim Hodgson

Liberal
“Companies from around the world are investing tens of billions of dollars in Canada because of our policies. The Conservatives should support this.”

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Mr. Speaker, here is who is investing in Canada. Shell just put $30 billion into the upstream in Alberta. Equinor is putting $10 billion into Newfoundland. Petronas is putting billions of dollars into this country. There are people from all over the world coming to invest in this country because of Liberal policies. Maybe the Conservatives should get on board.

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Aaron Gunn

Conservative
“The government should end the oil tanker ban. Keeping the ban traps our oil, hurts our dollar, and forces us to sell oil cheaply to the United States. A private company wants to move oil by rail through Prince Rupert. The government should allow this plan so Canada can be energy independent.”
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals like to talk a big game when it comes to dealing with the United States, yet they refuse to lift the ideological and unscientific tanker ban that land-locks Canadian resources and depresses the Canadian dollar, giving our oil away on the cheap to the Trump administration while Canadians struggle with the cost of living crisis here at home. However, there is now a plan, a private sector proposal, to export Canadian oil by rail through Prince Rupert. Will the Liberal government finally get out of the way, repeal the tanker ban and allow this country, Canada, to achieve true energy independence from the United States?

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Steven MacKinnon

Liberal
“Our government is getting major energy and port projects built across Canada. We are building two major pipelines to the west coast.”

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Mr. Speaker, we are all very proud of the work that my colleague is doing with these major projects across the country. We are talking about Coastal GasLink. We are talking about LNG one and two. We are talking about the north coast transmission line. We are talking about some of the biggest port infrastructure investments in Canadian history. Guess what. The member is new. He lives with regret because he is not the premier of British Columbia today. We built not one, but are about to build two major pipelines to the west coast of Canada.

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