Mr. Speaker, in the 1970s, my relatives worked in the oil patch. They are from Alberta. They remember when Mr. Trudeau thought Alberta's resources were Mr. Trudeau's resources, and they rejected that. They also recognized that if we are going to develop these resources, Canadians and Albertans have a right to benefit from them. That is why we do not just ship raw bitumen.
I would like to quote former Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach who said, “Shipping raw bitumen is like scraping off the topsoil, selling it, and then passing the farm on to the next generation”. We certainly agree with him.