Environment committee  I was asking for an answer here. You're suggesting that the Food and Drugs Act is the best wording in this bill. You said that this is the traditional mechanism used to deal with the cosmetics, the Food and Drugs Act, as opposed to CEPA. Why is that? Are there enforcement mechan

Environment committee  G-4 will be withdrawn.

Environment committee  Thank you, Chair. I'd like to begin by noting that there are two chemical names for DEHP, and they are di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate and bis(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate. The current version of Bill C-307 uses the first name for DEHP. The listing of the substance in schedule 1 of CEPA us

Environment committee  Yes, please.

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, the only scheme was for the Liberal Party to suck money out of Canadians and not get the job done. Sheila Copps is the person I was quoting. She went on to say on the environment, “the Liberals are not on solid ground”. I wholeheartedly agree. If our plan to reduce

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, the only fraud in the House was when the Liberals promised 13 years ago that they would do something about the environment and they did absolutely nothing. The fact is it was not nothing; they did worse than nothing. Emissions rose 35% above target. They owe the Hous

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, the only people who are laughing are people in the Liberal Party, the NDP and the Bloc who are opposing a plan that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 20% by 2020. We will also reduce pollution levels by 50% over the next eight years. That is getting it done.

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, I love the irony of a Liberal asking questions on the environment. This is what David Suzuki said, “I certainly agree with the Conservatives that the Liberals just did not do the hard things that needed to be done to meet the target”. There is another quote and it

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, the only people who are opposing this plan, which is a good realistic plan, are the radical environmentalists and the opposition. I have a quote from the FCM president, who said: We applaud the Minister for recognizing the important role municipal governments can

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, the fact is that if the plan we introduced yesterday had been introduced in 1997, we would have met the Kyoto targets. I ask members to listen to this quote: --my initial reaction is that this is a strong step in the right direction. The federal government seems to

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, his own leader said, “I will be part of Kyoto, but I will say to the world I don't think I will make it”. It is that party that abandoned Kyoto. It is that party that created the environmental mess. It is that party's deputy leader who said, “We didn't get it done”.

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, if the Liberals had taken action on the environment when they were in government, we would have met the Kyoto target, but the reality is that they did not get it done. We have heard that they did not even plan to get it done. They made a lot of promises but they did

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, well-known Liberal supporter, Mr. Buzz Hargrove, has also been quoted today. He says that he thinks the minister has taken a major step forward that will deal with some of the environmental concerns but will not throw tens of thousands of workers out of work. The Li

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, the fact is that it was the Liberals who abandoned Kyoto when we saw greenhouse emissions go 35% above the target. They owe this Parliament an apology. During the committee, it was Dr. David Keith, from the University of Calgary, who told that member, “This is the k

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for the question because we finally have a government that is taking serious the importance of the environment. For 13 years, we had a Liberal government where emissions continued to rise. The Liberals promised but obviously they were not concerne