Evidence of meeting #3 for Natural Resources in the 44th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was program.
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4:25 p.m.
NDP
Charlie Angus NDP Timmins—James Bay, ON
Yes, but with all due respect, he said that based on your promises. The environment commissioner said that we don't need any more promises and targets; we need you to meet them. This report said that you failed.
We're sticking to the environment commissioner's report. If you want to bring someone else's report, we'll bring those witnesses. He said you failed and production is increasing. Why are you not taking responsibility for this?
4:25 p.m.
Liberal
Jonathan Wilkinson Liberal North Vancouver, BC
In the context of the emissions reduction report, the emissions have gone down, and they've gone down significantly. If, in fact, the commissioner is looking at a project that a company may want to do 100 miles away from the project to reduce emissions, that's a very different thing.
4:25 p.m.
NDP
Charlie Angus NDP Timmins—James Bay, ON
He didn't say these were 100 miles away. He said this is the money that you gave them.
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NDP
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal John Aldag
Sorry, I'll interrupt. We are at the end of our time there.
As I said, it makes it hard for the interpreters when we have more than one conversation.
We're at the end of the two and a half minutes, so we're going to wrap this panel up, unfortunately.
Mr. Maguire, I know you said you had a quick question, but we have two panellists who—
4:25 p.m.
Conservative
Larry Maguire Conservative Brandon—Souris, MB
It's for the minister and related to Brandon. I'm from Brandon, so I thought I'd do a quick one.
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Liberal
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Conservative
Michelle Rempel Conservative Calgary Nose Hill, AB
On a point of order, Chair, we still have two minutes left.
Give it to Mr. Maguire.
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Conservative
Larry Maguire Conservative Brandon—Souris, MB
It's a 10-second question and the minister will be here. He's not going anywhere.
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Conservative
Larry Maguire Conservative Brandon—Souris, MB
I'll be 30 seconds, and he can answer me in 30 seconds.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal John Aldag
Okay, you have 30 seconds because you're from Brandon and the Brandon mayor had some good things to say.
4:25 p.m.
Conservative
Larry Maguire Conservative Brandon—Souris, MB
Thanks, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Minister.
Mr. Chrest was right, and I would agree with him. If there were jobs coming out of these things, jobs are always good. I wonder if you could provide me with the numbers of the retention of jobs or the creation of new ones in the Brandon project, so I can report that back to the mayor.
4:25 p.m.
Liberal
Jonathan Wilkinson Liberal North Vancouver, BC
As I said earlier, I would be very happy to provide you with those. We are collecting them now in the aftermath of the implementation of the project. We will be very happy to sit down to go through that with you once we have the numbers.
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Conservative
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal John Aldag
Excellent. Thank you, Mr. Maguire. I think you're up for our next round, so we'll hear more from you.
Minister and officials—Ms. Johnson, Ms. Scharf and Mr. Layer—thank you for joining us for the panel with the minister this afternoon. If you want to jump off the line, we're going to bring in the next panel.
I understand there may be a couple of people who need to have a quick mike check. I'm looking at our clerk to make sure. If that all got sorted out in the back room, we may be able to go right into the panel.
4:30 p.m.
The Clerk of the Committee Ms. Hilary Jane Powell
We will do a very quick sound check with Mr. Cosbey and Mr. Gorski to make sure that works, and then we can start.
Thank you.
4:30 p.m.
Aaron Cosbey Senior Associate, International Institute for Sustainable Development
Can you hear me all right?
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The Clerk
Hello, Mr. Cosbey. We'll just do a quick sound check. Maybe you can talk about the weather. We'll make sure our interpreters can hear you.
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Senior Associate, International Institute for Sustainable Development
I'm coming to you from sunny, beautiful British Columbia, halfway between Calgary and Vancouver, on this fine winter day.
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The Clerk
Thank you very much.
Now, we'll just do a very quick one for Jan Gorski, and then we'll go on.
Hello, Jan. Could you kindly say a few words about the weather as well?
4:30 p.m.
Liberal
