QUESTION PERIOD — Transport
Potash Exports
November 25, 2025
My question is for the government leader.
Last week, Nutrien, a flagship Canadian company and the world’s largest potash producer, chose to invest $1 billion into a new export terminal not anywhere in Canada but in Longview, Washington. Their message was clear. The decision was purely economic: lower costs, fewer bottlenecks and more reliable transportation infrastructure. After a decade of Liberal governments, Canada’s ports are congested, labour disruptions are routine, regulatory approvals are slow, and promises of streamlining our supply chains remain just that.
How did your government allow a $1-billion investment to slip out of our hands and into the United States, giving Donald Trump a billion-dollar win while giving Mark Carney and the Canadian people a billion-dollar loss?
The government values that kind of investment, and you want to have it in Canada. The answer of the government is the first bill that was tabled and adopted at the beginning of the mandate. It’s Bill C-5. Bill C-5 and the actual budget provide new investment in infrastructure. That was part of your question. We know that we need to invest in our infrastructure. That’s exactly what the government is committed to doing. It’s committed to it through Bill C-5 and through the last budget that was tabled. We want to grow a strong economy through investing in our infrastructure. Further investment of that kind will be realized here in Canada if we do it properly. That’s the commitment of this government.
Old Liberal government, new Prime Minister, same results. And I appreciate the results of the last election. That was eight months ago.
Nutrien’s move is a damning indictment of Canada’s supply chain infrastructure problem. When a Canadian company says it’s cheaper to move potash through a U.S. port, the problem isn’t Nutrien. It’s Ottawa.
How can Canadians trust this government or anything they say to fix our supply chain and reignite and inject some confidence back into this economy?
That’s what the government has been doing day after day since the last election. You are referring to an old government. I’m referring to an old preamble in your question. In the last decade, Canadians had to make a judgment. They did so last April, Senator Housakos, and their judgment was to elect the actual government. And they’re confident, just like the government, that our economy will grow.
