Q-1023 , 45th Parliament, 1st session May 26, 2025, to present

With regard to the Minister of Finance and National Revenue’s remarks in the September 11, 2025, announcement of the Major Projects Office that the “government is committed to making Canada into a clean and conventional energy superpower”, the aim of the Major Projects Office to “work to fast-track nation-building projects by streamlining regulatory assessment and approvals and helping to structure financing”, and the contribution of natural gas to Canada’s conventional energy capacity: (a) what role does the Minister of Finance and National Revenue consider the export of liquefied natural gas to play in making Canada a conventional energy superpower; (b) what criteria did the government use in 2022 to determine that there was not a business case for exporting liquefied natural gas from Canada’s east coast; (c) what criteria does the government currently use in determining whether a business case exists for exporting liquefied natural gas from Canada’s east coast; (d) between 2016 and 2026, how many evaluations did the government perform of the business case for exporting liquefied natural gas from Canada’s east coast and when did it perform such evaluations; and (e) of the evaluations in (d), how many indicated that the provisions and process of the Impact Assessment Act had a deleterious effect on the business case for exporting liquefied natural gas from Canada’s east coast and on which dates did such evaluations report their results?