Madam Speaker, I listened with great interest to my colleague from Alberta espousing support by his party for cleaner energy production.
I wonder if the member shares my disappointment in his party's failure, in the decade it was in power, to take more strident measures to phase-out coal-fired power. Under his government's tenure, it failed to introduce binding federal regulations to reduce mercury, which Alberta, to its credit, did. Now, other coal-fired power plants in Canada do not have to reduce mercury. Second, the Canadian Medical Association has said that, due to the serious health impacts and deaths associated with coal-fired power, we must move expeditiously to phase-out coal.
Does the member share my disappoint in his party's failure to support Alberta's measures?