Doug Ford: “We need to fight tooth and nail. We can’t fight on our back foot all the time. We have to take the offence.”

I want to be clear: what I’m talking about is government providing the patient capital needed to invest in our future.

Critical infrastructure gets built, tens of thousands of jobs are created. We protect our energy and economic sovereignty and taxpayers get a return on their investment. It’s a win all around.

If John A. MacDonald, before Confederation, can build a railroad from one end of our country to the other in four and a half years, why can't we build a pipeline even quicker with the technology we have?

That will provide a secure, domestic and sovereign stockpile of fuels like diesel, gasoline, and jet fuel to protect the economy of workers and jobs in strengthening Canada's long-term energy security.