Mr. Speaker, the member says that the rhetoric needs to be toned down and then gives us nothing but rhetoric. The reality is that the Harper regime was terrible on climate change. We saw housing prices double in the Harper regime. We saw food bank lineups double during the Harper regime. The Harper regime and the Conservative government were absolutely terrible, and he knows this.
New Brunswickers took a look at the Conservatives, said, “Hell, no” and threw them out of office just a few weeks ago.
The reality is that climate change has an impact. In my riding and in the Lower Mainland, we lost 600 people due to the heat dome. The atmospheric rivers that cut British Columbia off from the rest of the country and the forest fires have had profound impacts, yet the Conservatives have not produced a climate plan. They have no environmental policy.
I appreciate my colleague's rhetoric, but the reality is he needs to have substance. Why do the Conservatives have no environmental plan?