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Oil and Gas Industry

During question period on the oil and gas industry, the Conservative leader said the oil tanker ban costs Canada money by keeping oil from reaching world markets, forcing sales to the United States at a lower price, and asked the government to support a bill to repeal the ban so a project could ship oil by rail from Prince Rupert within about two years using existing tracks. The Liberal minister replied that the government is working with British Columbia, Alberta, and First Nations on projects to increase exports, and invited the Conservatives to join in supporting those projects rather than, in his view, picking fights with Indigenous peoples. Most of the exchange consisted of these repeated calls to end the ban and invitations to collaborate.Written by AI from the debate. Updated .

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Pierre Poilievre

Conservative
“The ban on oil tankers forces us to sell our oil to the United States for $26 a barrel less than the world price. A company is ready to ship 250,000 barrels a day through Prince Rupert, but the Prime Minister's ban stops them. I want the government to vote for our bill to end this ban so we can sell our oil to world markets.”
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal tanker ban is a gigantic multi-billion-dollar gift to Donald Trump’s America. Right now, we are getting a $26-a-barrel lower price in the U.S. than we could get on the world market, because we cannot get our oil overseas. What if there were a company with a railroad already in place, promising to move 250,000 barrels a day and ship it from Prince Rupert to get world prices through the Pacific? Well, it turns out there is one. What is standing in the way? It is the Prime Minister and his tanker ban. Will the Liberal government vote for Conservative Bill C-264 to get our oil to the world?

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Tim Hodgson

Liberal
“We are working with provinces and First Nations to build projects like the Pacific link to increase our exports. The Conservatives should stop picking fights with Indigenous people and help us build these projects instead.”
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Mr. Speaker, Canada, B.C., Alberta and affected first nations are working together to build the Pacific link, which will massively increase exports. We are building in partnership with indigenous people all across this country. Rather than pick fights with indigenous people, why do the Conservatives not join us on the north coast transmission line and help us build that with indigenous people? Why do they not help us build the Darlington SMR with indigenous people? Why do they not stop fighting indigenous people and start building Canada strong?

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Pierre Poilievre

Conservative
“We could ship oil in two years using existing train tracks with no tax dollars. The only thing stopping it is the Prime Minister's tanker ban. I want him to vote for this bill and end the ban.”
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Mr. Speaker, it is all well and good to build a pipeline to the Pacific 10 years from now with tens of billions of dollars of taxpayer money, but that does not stop us from also allowing a project that could begin today and that could start shipping oil in two years on a rail track that already exists, without any taxpayer subsidy required. There is only one thing standing in the way, and that is the Prime Minister and his tanker ban. Will the Prime Minister get out of the way, vote for Conservative Bill C-264, get rid of the tanker ban and get our oil to the world?

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Tim Hodgson

Liberal

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“The Conservative leader should stop fighting Indigenous people. He should work with them and with us to build pipeline and power line projects across the country.”
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Mr. Speaker, I will repeat it. The Conservative leader can join us with indigenous people and help us build the sunrise pipeline expansion. He can join us and help us build the Taylor to Gordondale expansion. He can join us and build the Pacific link. He can join us and build the north coast transmission line. Instead of fighting indigenous people, he should work with indigenous people to build Canada strong.

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