Natural Resources committee  But to be honest, from the perspective of Alberta workers, an emissions cap is not the biggest issue facing our province's oil and gas sector, not even close. The biggest issue is the unfolding global energy transition itself. Contrary to the spin coming from certain politician

Natural Resources committee  Thanks, Mr. Chair, and members of the committee. You've asked me to weigh in on the subject of an emissions cap for Canada's oil and gas sector. I'm not here to dissuade anyone from acting on this commitment, but rather to urge you to proceed carefully to make sure you consult

Natural Resources committee  For us, the important thing is to move up the value ladder here in Canada. Frankly, we're skeptical of the arguments that have been made by industry, which you've just heard repeated today, that the construction of pipelines and access to tidewater will automatically give us a pr

Natural Resources committee  First of all, before I talk about renewables, I want to talk about the implications of that report for the traditional energy sector. The conclusion that report reaches, and the conclusion that has been reached by many other experts around the world, is that we are moving rapidly

Natural Resources committee  Yes, if the Alberta oil actually goes through those pipelines as opposed to going past them to export markets.

Natural Resources committee  Actually, I would take some issue with that. The Edmonton area is actually the biggest refining hub in the country.

Natural Resources committee  There are myriad problems, however. We would like to get oil to those refineries in places like New Brunswick, but there's a bunch of problems. The biggest one is that the Irving refinery in New Brunswick, like a lot of refineries in other parts of the world that the industry say

Natural Resources committee  I think the people of Kalamazoo would disagree with you. If a pipeline carrying diluted bitumen ruptures, as we know, bitumen sinks to the bottom of a waterway and you can't get it out, but if you're transporting synthetic crude, it can be skimmed off the surface. I actually thi

Natural Resources committee  The first question is about how our members would benefit from sustainable resource development. I would begin to answer that question by acknowledging the basic fact that here in Alberta we have petroleum resources. That is our competitive advantage. People have talked about the

Natural Resources committee  Thanks for this opportunity. As most of you probably know, my organization represents thousands of people who work in and rely upon Alberta's energy economy. I'm here today to tell you that the industry that has sustained our members and created so many jobs for other Albertans

International Trade committee  Actually, it's much longer. The temporary foreign worker program has been around for almost 50 years in one form or another.

International Trade committee  With the current iteration, the big change started in 2002. The big change was that the Chrétien government turned it from what had been a sleepy corner of the federal bureaucracy that was used by employers to bring in just a few thousand workers every year, mostly in the highly

International Trade committee  Actually, the TPP explicitly says that all of those safeguards that you've just talked about would no longer apply for workers being brought in under the professional technical stream, which is the stream that employers would use to bring tradespeople into the country. They would

International Trade committee  In order to illustrate our point about the large number of occupations and job categories that would be affected by the TPP, we attached to our legal opinion one of the annexes from the agreement. Basically, there is an annex related to labour mobility for every TPP signatory par

International Trade committee  I would encourage the Liberal government to refuse to ratify this agreement and demand that it be renegotiated. If there is an agreement among other signatory nations to engage in renegotiation, open the doors, let the sunlight in, let civil society in, and perhaps you'll come up