Mr. Speaker, I thank the hon. member for Winnipeg Centre for bringing this critical issue to the floor of the House of Commons tonight for an emergency debate. There are many ways in which this is an emergency.
In June 2018, this House voted that the climate crisis was an emergency. The next day, the government approved a pipeline. Tonight we are debating an emergency where we are seeing people running for their lives from remote communities in Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
I ask the hon. member what she hopes can come out of this debate tonight to change from rhetoric to action on the climate crisis.