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The Environment Mr. Speaker, I thank my hon. colleague for her question. We do have a plan and I wish my colleague would recognize that we are well on course to achieve our 2020 targets, our initial targets. We will continue to regulate, sector by sector, the largest emitters. We began
January 31st, 2011House debate
Peter KentConservative
Questions on the Order Paper of principles, policies, regulations and standards. Some of the steps we have taken as we continue to pursue work towards our target on a sector by sector basis have been noted. We are moving forward with common North American standards for regulating greenhouse gas emissions from
January 31st, 2011House debate
Peter KentConservative
The Environment Mr. Speaker, I would urge my hon. colleague to be more diligent and prudent in her research. Our government is firmly on track to meet our greenhouse gas emission reductions by 17% below 2005 levels by 2020. We have taken action in the transportation sector, a sector
February 3rd, 2011House debate
Peter KentConservative
The Environment Mr. Speaker, as I said, we have a plan and our plan is working. We will continue to regulate sector by sector to achieve our climate change and greenhouse gas emissions by 2020. We started with the two largest greenhouse gas emitters in the transportation sector
February 8th, 2011House debate
Peter KentConservative
Environment committee emissions, a plan that takes a strategic sector-by-sector approach, a plan that focuses on real, measurable progress. And this plan, members, is already working. In partnership with provinces, territories, and others, we have already taken actions that will reduce greenhouse gas
March 8th, 2011Committee meeting
Peter KentConservative
Environment committee sector, and then we will move on to other large emitters sector by sector as we go around the wheel. We address transportation first because that is the largest single sector in terms of emitting greenhouse gases, but our commitment is there, and we have the funds to achieve those
March 8th, 2011Committee meeting
Peter KentConservative
The Environment Mr. Speaker, I again congratulate my hon. colleague on her appointment to the environment file. We do have a plan and that plan is working. We have committed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions sector by sector and that plan is working. With regard to the Speech from
June 6th, 2011House debate
Peter KentConservative
House debate actually had an opportunity to consider the NDP's climate change platform in the last month, during our election, and it was soundly rejected. Our plan, the best plan for it, is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions sector by sector, aligning with the U.S. where appropriate. With regard
June 14th, 2011House debate
Michelle RempelConservative
House debate Mr. Speaker, we look forward to continuing to make progress toward our ambitious targets of reducing our greenhouse gas emissions by 17% from 2005 levels by 2020 through a sector by sector approach aligned with the U.S. where appropriate. We are a quarter of a way
June 22nd, 2011House debate
Michelle RempelConservative
The Environment Mr. Speaker, I welcome my colleague's question. We do have a plan, and our plan is working. As my colleague knows full well, we began with a sector-by-sector regulatory approach a year ago, starting with the transportation sector, which is the greatest emitter of greenhouse
September 19th, 2011House debate
Peter KentConservative
The Environment , Canada ranks third in the world in terms of air quality. This is something all Canadians can take pride in. We take pride in our regulatory approach to greenhouse gases. We are moving forward sector by sector.
September 26th, 2011House debate
Peter KentConservative
Environment committee , and that's compatible with the United States. With the Copenhagen program, we now have many more nations involved, including the large emitters, in trying to achieve some objectives, and the government is working on a sector-by-sector basis through regulation to have an action plan
October 4th, 2011Committee meeting
James LunneyConservative
Finance committee Let me put you guys on the spot. If you were a federal minister, what would you do? If you had sector-by-sector, the B.C. carbon tax, or the Alberta carbon price for large emitters, and you were the minister and you had to choose one of the three, what would you do?
October 26th, 2011Committee meeting
The ChairConservative
Finance committee has worked on a natural gas initiative for a long time as part of that. I just wanted to pose a question to you and to the mining associations. Our approach is for sector-by-sector regulation. You've outlined what's being done in B.C. If you look at the Alberta plan, it basically
October 26th, 2011Committee meeting
The ChairConservative
House debate with all Canadians about what is happening in the environment around them. That is why we take pride in the accomplishments of our excellent team at Environment Canada and the results that they deliver. Those results include: a sector by sector plan to align with the U.S. and achieve
November 3rd, 2011House debate
Michelle RempelConservative