Conservatives criticize Canada-Germany energy deal and cancelled LNG projects

Thank you very much everyone for being here. As you can see, we have our great conservative team here

working together to bring about a Canada that is affordable at home, safe at home, secure at home,

and united at home. All things we were 11 years ago, but after a decade of Liberal government,

life is expensive, two million people line up at food banks, housing is out of reach for an entire

generation, crime, chaos, drugs and disorder are rampant in our streets, and the country is more

divided than ever before under this Liberal government. What we've learned is Mark Carney's

promise that he would reverse everything he had said and that his party had done in the prior 10

years was all an illusion. It's been more cost, more crime, more corruption, more grand announcements

without action, more of the same. He is just another Liberal. Take for example today's headlines

without deadlines. The Minister of Natural Resources made a grand announcement of a deal

with Germany. And where have we heard that before? I have here the last time the Liberals announced

a deal with Germany. The joint declaration of intent between the Government of Canada and

the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany on establishing a Canada-Germany hydrogen alliance.

In this agreement which you all gave, to which you all gave copious amounts of coverage,

uncritical coverage, they promised that they would be delivering boatloads of hydrogen to

Germany by 2025. Well here we are halfway through 2026 and how many boatloads of hydrogen have

been delivered to Germany? Zero, not a tablespoon. In fact, there's not even a shovel in the ground

for a future hydrogen terminal that could ever manufacture or ship this stuff. And now they're

getting another round of uncritical media coverage for yet another fake agreement that will

ultimately result in nothing. But before I comment on that, let me just say Conservatives are

announcing today a new private members bill that will require mandatory Geography 101 for the

Minister of Natural Resources. Because today he was asked an inconvenient question. How are you

going to get natural gas from British Columbia to the North Sea? And his answer was that he's

going to take, there's going to be a ship that's going to go all the way down to the Panama Canal

along the side of the United States and then through the Caribbean islands all the way back

north to Germany. But most ships, he says, will be too big for that. So they'll have to go all the

way down around the southern tip of Latin America and then all the way back. But even more than that,

he's going to have ships that are going to go across the Pacific, around Asia, around Africa,

and then all the way back to the northernmost part of Europe where they will deliver the gas.

When we could have simply delivered the gas from eastern Canada, where there were three terminals

that the Liberals have killed. One in Newfoundland. We have our members from Newfoundland here.

Jonathan. Jonathan's here. His constituents could have been working on the LNG Newfoundland and

Labrador project which would have pumped gas from the Jandark oil field to a liquefaction ship on

the shore off to Germany. Liberals killed it. Then there was the reversal of the Repsol terminal

which was going to take an existing import terminal, turn it into an export terminal,

send it off to Europe in St. John. We have our member from St. John here whose constituents

lost out off that opportunity when the Liberals killed that. And then the third, Saguenay,

the LNG Quebec project, which would have liquefied Canadian gas on the St. Lawrence,

sent it off to Europe. Liberals killed all three of these projects which, by the way,

would have delivered gas in half the time it takes to get from the U.S. Gulf Coast.

And instead those projects are now dead. And the Liberals expect us to believe that someday

over the rainbow they're going to send ships through four continents all the way around the

world to do what we could have done in a quarter of the time if they had not stood in the way.

It is more headlines without deadlines, announcements without actions, illusions without

reality. When is the media coverage actually going to scrutinize the results of these endless

announcements and look at what they actually deliver? We as conservatives want to repeal all

the energy laws, provide pre-permitting for LNG liquefaction plants and the pipelines to supply

them so that they can get approved within six months, get rid of the industrial carbon tax,

and that we can get these projects done. I would add, by the way, you actually don't need to sign

new agreements because the rest of the world is already begging for our energy. It doesn't take

a master negotiator to convince a man in the desert to take a glass of water, right? It takes

the ability to deliver the glass of water. And right now it's not that the Europeans or the

Asians are keeping our energy out, it's that our Liberal government is keeping the energy in. We

need to repeal those laws, unlock our industry, no more phony announcements. It's time to turn

the illusions into a reality and start getting things done. That's why conservatives keep

fighting for a Canada that's affordable at home, strong at home, safe at home, and united at home.