Sheila Copps

[The Environment, February 13th, 1995]

Mr. Speaker, the Sydney emission levels are below the levels that were set by CCME. The Sydney levels not only meet the current Nova Scotia guidelines but also the guidelines established by the CCME.

[The Environment, February 13th, 1995]

Mr. Speaker, I am glad the member has brought to the attention of the House that indeed there is an investment of $55 million to clean up tar ponds that obviously took many years to build up.

As one whose grandfather was born there I know the sacrifices of the people in the Sydney area. I know the sacrifices of industrial workers who have lived with pollution for eight decades of this century.

The Sydney tar ponds cleanup is proceeding. The level of incineration at the moment is being examined regularly to ensure that the health and safety of the people in the area is not affected. We hope the cleanup of this mess will not take the decades it took to accumulate.

[Order In Council Appointments, February 13th, 1995]

Mr. Speaker, another hypothesis by the member which does not deserve an answer.

[Order In Council Appointments, February 13th, 1995]

Mr. Speaker, every single order in council appointment is subject to the review of the appropriate parliamentary committee.

Mr. Callahan's name was brought before the parliamentary committee. The member had an opportunity at that time to make any statement, however slanderous, he might choose to make. He chose to remain silent through that 30-day period.

I have only to ask him the question: Why did he not bring these alleged facts to light rather than slandering this individual here on the floor of the House of Commons?

[Labour, February 10th, 1995]

Mr. Speaker, absolutely not.

[Swearing In Of His Excellency The Governor General, February 8th, 1995]

Mr. Speaker, with the unanimous consent of the House and in accordance with custom, I move, seconded by the hon. member for Laurier-Sainte-Marie, that the speech of His Excellency the Governor General, the Right Hon. Roméo LeBlanc, together with the address of welcome made by the Prime Minister in the Senate Chamber on February 8, 1995, be printed an appendix to the official report of debates of the House of Commons, and form part of the permanent record of this Parliament.

(Motion agreed to.)

[Immigration, February 8th, 1995]

Mr. Speaker, we took measures in 1993. We are the only country in the world with an Immigration Act that contains guidelines on the institution of proceedings in the case of sexual discrimination. We promised this in 1993 and we delivered.

We are the only country in the world to recognize it. Some countries are discriminatory. These guidelines are to enable eligible women to obtain refugee status.

[Petro-Canada, December 15th, 1994]

Mr. Speaker, I will follow up on the undertaking I gave both publicly and privately to the member last week.

Not only did I receive his question in the House. I subsequently went over to discuss it with him personally. He assured me that he would provide medical information that we would use in an attempt to personally intervene with Petro-Canada. I have discussed the issue with my colleague, the Minister for Natural Resources, and we have been awaiting the medical evidence the member says is now in his possession.

[The Environment, December 15th, 1994]

Madam Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order 32(2), I hereby submit to Parliament, through your good offices, the final report of the task force on economic instruments and disincentives to sound environmental practices.

[Department Of The Environment, December 14th, 1994]

Mr. Speaker, I am very glad that the member has asked this question because on taking over the ministry I made arrangements to inform the band that future payments after this fiscal year should cease and desist.

We have begun negotiations and in fact expect to conclude an agreement very shortly where in fact there will be no further federal payments made for this land. In a year we have solved the problem.