Mr. Speaker, it is nice to hear the holier-than-thou phraseology, but the government is subsidizing the big oil and gas companies, and is perfectly happy to do it, apparently.
A VP at Suncor said yesterday, “We don't predict job losses or impact on the economy [because] of meeting Kyoto”.
Shell has committed to a 50% reduction in its first oil sands project as long as it can be done voluntarily.
This industry has no reason to be fighting regulation and rules with the pollution that it is putting forward.
How can the Prime Minister continue to refuse to act on this situation when even the industry admits that it will not hurt the economy? When is he going to get going? Or on a day when Al Gore is here, calling on us to act as Canadians, will he continue to deny?