Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Yes, I'm really intrigued that we would have a motion at this point in the committee work, in the committee business, that we've been doing. We're in the middle of an electrical grid study. We're in the middle of a TMX study. We have a heavy workload that's incomplete, and we keep bouncing around between both of these studies. It would be nice, actually, if this committee were seized with the work that we thought was important some time ago.
We heard from witnesses today who seem to think that we have some very important issues that need to be resolved here. They contributed here, and I appreciate all of their testimony. I don't agree with all of it, but certainly I appreciate the fact that they're willing to tender their opinions here at committee and open themselves up to questions. I think it's terrific that they're doing that.
However, we're in the middle of very important studies. The Trans Mountain expansion pipeline study is something that we are trying to get to the bottom of. What exactly went so horribly wrong there with this Liberal government that they took a project that should have cost $12 billion and ended up at $34 billion?
Mr. Chair, I don't think we've seen the end. We don't have final numbers on that project yet. Now they're suggesting that they're going to put it up for sale, but nobody seems to know what that price is.
I think it is really incumbent on this committee not to get distracted with additional studies at this point, but to finish the work that we've started here. That work is looking at the TMX expansion project to see what went wrong there, why the cost is what it is and how horribly mismanaged it has been by this Liberal government. It is also finishing this electrical study that we've embarked on. I think these are two very important studies, and I would really like to see us continuing with them.
Thank you, Mr. Chair.