It was a message that seemed at odds with his party’s climate policies..But Tourism Minister Randy Boissonnault, who is also associate minister of finance in the Trudeau government, appeared to actually support the oil and gas industry at the World Petroleum Congress on Tuesday.. Boissonnault at WPCTourism Minister Randy Boissonnault cheers on the oil and gas industry at the World Petroleum Congress in Calgary. .The Edmonton Centre MP was standing in for Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson to host the WPC’s ‘Canada Night’ which featured an indoor rodeo and barbecue for delegates, to add a little Western flair to the proceedings..Wilkinson, who was to emcee the event, flew back to Ottawa on Tuesday to provide $3 billion in financing for the Romanian government to build a pair of CANDU nuclear reactors in the Eastern European nation even as the Alberta government announced plans to introduce small modular reactors into the oil sands..Boissonnault dutifully stepped in and delivered a message that could best be described as confounding given the conduct of his cohort over the past 72 hours..In it, he actually extols the virtues of the oil and gas sector in a way Liberal cabinet ministers can’t or won’t..”Let me be very clear, as the world's fourth largest producer of oil and gas, and the fifth largest producer of natural gas our government is going to be with you as they continue to fuel the world,” he barked..“And as you're doing deals and earning more direct investment here to Canada, it's all Alberta. I want to know. If you want a federal minister to promote what you're doing here in our country, you let me know. If you want to go fast to go home, but if you want to go far, go together. The Government of Canada and I intend to go very far together with you at the centre.”
