Randy Boissonnault at the Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities Committee

On December 11th, 2023. See this statement in context.

December 11th, 2023 / 11:15 a.m.

Liberal

Randy Boissonnault Liberal Edmonton Centre, AB

I support a cap on emissions, not a cap on production. What we have in place is an emissions cap, not a production cap.

Mrs. Falk, I could not go outside on the Monday of the long weekends in May or September this year because the air quality index was 11.5. I'm sure that your children and children across this country want to make sure that MPs right now are doing everything they can to make sure that we're fighting climate change. In the middle of COVID, in Edmonton Centre people were asking me to make sure that our government fought climate change.

We're doing so in such a way that in 2024 we're going to have an increase in the number of drilling rigs in Alberta. We are able to decouple growth—

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