Mr. Speaker, Frédéric Bérard, a professor at the Université de Montréal, recently wrote a book called La Terre est une poubelle en feu, or “the earth is a flaming trash can”. Given the massive fires in California, this title is not just an image, but a sad reality.
The Liberals need to realize that we are going through a health and economic crisis, but the climate crisis has not gone away. On that, the government is sending mixed messages that are causing confusion. It continues to subsidize oil companies, it is boosting oil exploration in Atlantic Canada, it is wasting billions of dollars on the Trans Mountain expansion, it has failed to plant a single tree, it is leaving the door open to GNL Quebec and every year it gets further away from our greenhouse gas reduction targets.
We have to change the way we produce, consume and travel. We have to electrify all our means of transportation. It is time for an ambitious and coherent plan to leave a viable planet for future generations.