There is no good way to build major projects without First Nations partnership and leadership. Full stop.

Over the last eight months, we have been steadily delivering on each commitment in the Canada-Alberta MOU, working with Alberta and the energy industry to build major energy infrastructure, reduce emissions, create jobs and prosperity and…

I am quite comfortable that this is a good investment for Canadian taxpayers.

The Trans Mountain pipeline is a money maker. It's one of the best assets that this the country has.

This is what the deep geological repository represents. It helps unlock the next generation of nuclear projects.

When we use energy more wisely, we reduce pressures on supplies, we make our systems more reliable, we protect people and businesses from volatility and disruption.

Our government has moved assertively to build one economy out of thirteen and give ourselves more than anyone else can take away, and the electricity grid is an obvious next step.

We are supporting these projects because it is through transmission lines like these and a more connected electricity system writ large that we can improve reliability, we can lower costs and we can support economic growth.

If Canada is serious about expanding nuclear energy, we must also be serious about safe, responsible, long-term management of used nuclear fuel.

To meet these goals, we are going to need to build big things again both quickly and responsibly in partnership with Indigenous People.

They build our energy, mining and electricity and transportation sectors and beyond that, and they demonstrate to the world Canada's ambition from coast to coast to coast.