QUESTION PERIOD — Ministry of Natural Resources
Energy Infrastructure
October 9, 2025
Welcome, minister. Your government has made a commitment to advancing projects of national interest that strengthen Canada’s energy security and Indigenous economic participation. Projects like Trigon Terminals’ LPG export facility represent exactly the kind of nationally significant, privately financed and Indigenous-supported energy infrastructure Canada needs to strengthen its autonomy and competitiveness.
Minister, how is your department ensuring projects are not effectively stranded or excluded through arrangements that severely restrict export access along strategic trade corridors?
Thank you for the question. I’m familiar with the issue. It involves a port. Ports do not come under my ministry; they come under Minister MacKinnon’s jurisdiction, the Minister of Transport.
As I understand that issue, there were some transactions that were negotiated before this government came into office. I’m aware there is an issue. I am aware they are working on it. I understand the issue.
Minister, more specifically, how is the government ensuring that the strategic Prince Rupert trade corridor remains open and competitive so that strategic First Nations investments and Canadian resources from Alberta and British Columbia can reach global markets rather than be constrained, as they are today?
We are working closely with proponents in Prince Rupert, in Stewart, in Kitimat, often in conjunction with the local First Nations. Often, those First Nations are working closely with First Nations along any linear infrastructure.
What I have seen, in my experience, is when First Nations are involved early on, when they participate in the projects and have true benefits for their communities, First Nations are a catalyst and an accelerator of projects. They don’t slow them down.
