House of Commons photoWon his last election, in 2021, with 49% of the vote.
Elections Canada October 26th, 2007
Mr. Speaker, Canadians gave us a mandate to keep an eye on the Conservatives.
The Conservatives' tactics in committee and in this House clearly show that they are trying to sweep the election spending issue under the carpet before the next election. Canadians deserve better.
Why is the government doing all it can to keep the truth about Conservative Party election spending from coming out? What do they have to hide? What exactly is it they fear?
Elections Canada October 26th, 2007
Mr. Speaker, Canadians deserve answers from the Conservatives concerning the taxpayer subsidized in-and-out scam, but all they get from the Conservatives are delaying tactics in committee, evasive non-answers in the House, a lawsuit against Elections Canada, and now threats to silence those who would dare to ask questions.
They are doing everything to prevent the House from getting to the bottom of this scam while it is in session. We will not allow the government to avoid scrutiny through intimidation.
Will the government finally end its wall of silence and come clean, really clean, with Canadians?
Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development June 15th, 2007
In fact, Mr. Speaker, what the teacher would say is that the Minister of the Environment got caught cheating on exams. He has an answer for everything except for the fact that he cheats on his exams.
Let us be clear: the chair unilaterally changed the witness list against the wishes of the committee. And this was not the first time that the committee chair has followed the orders of the Prime Minister's Office or the Minister of the Environment.
Why is the government still refusing to let Mark Jaccard testify about the so-called environmental plan? The Minister of the Environment considers him to be one of Canada's best economists. What exactly is he trying to hide?
Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development June 15th, 2007
Mr. Speaker, yesterday the environment committee chair resigned to prevent testimony from witnesses who prove that under the government's ecofraud climate change plan emissions will continue to rise every year until 2050.
After he resigned, not one of the Conservative members cared enough about the work of the committee to take a seat. I guess the government's dirty tricks playbook for committee chairs is still in effect.
Why is the government so averse to hearing independent analysis when it is so clearly in need of knowledgeable advice on actually addressing the climate crisis?
The Environment June 13th, 2007
Mr. Speaker, the minister reminds me of a school child who gets caught cheating on an exam.
Four reputable organizations, four independent reports, confirmed that the minister is deceiving Canadians. Even the government's own officials cannot back up his claims.
This ecofraud means consumers will pay billions of dollars for no real environmental or health benefits.
Why does the minister not just stop the charade and the schoolyard antics and bring Bill C-30 back to the House for a vote?
The Environment June 13th, 2007
Mr. Speaker, a report released yesterday by the C.D. Howe Institute completely discredited the statements made by the Prime Minister during the G-8, in which he claimed that his climate change plan would save the planet.
The report confirmed that Canada's emissions will skyrocket every year for the next 50 years. By that time, emissions will be 330% higher than the 2050 targets that the Prime Minister announced to the world.
Will the Prime Minister finally admit that his plan is a total failure?
Budget Implementation Act, 2007 June 8th, 2007
What about prorogue?
The Environment June 8th, 2007
Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister even refused to support the simplest measures, such as improving energy efficiency by 20%.
All of the Prime Minister's photo ops and the Minister of the Environment's self-congratulatory attitude cannot hide the fact that the Prime Minister let down both Canada and the world at the G-8 summit: no targets, no limits, no action. Canada should have been a leader at the summit.
Why did the Prime Minister choose to promote the George Bush-Republican Party plan?
The Environment June 8th, 2007
Some model, Mr. Speaker. A model toy train, perhaps, but nothing serious for the planet.
This Prime Minister failed the G-8 summit leadership test. He refused to adopt absolute emissions reduction targets, deciding that he would rather promote a resolution that will do nothing more than “seriously consider”—maybe, someday—a world greenhouse gas reduction target.
Seriously, what is there to be considered?
The Environment June 8th, 2007
Mr. Speaker, the Bush administration says it feels vindicated today after G-8 countries chose to endorse its go slow approach to climate change: no firm targets; no clear limits; no real action.
It did not have to be this way. The Prime Minister could have rallied his G-8 partners around the German chancellor's original goals. He could have held up Parliament's clean air and climate change act to the world as a model for real action on the environment. Instead, he helped to build a bridge to nowhere. Why did this Prime Minister fail the world?