Catherine McKenna

[The Environment, May 3rd, 2018]

Mr. Speaker, we have a climate plan. We are going to stick with it. One day maybe Canadians will even see what the Conservatives want to do.

[The Environment, May 3rd, 2018]

Mr. Speaker, let me continue. One, emissions went down because the Ontario government phased out coal. The Conservatives cannot take credit for that. Actually, they can take credit for a recession that was created by them. Let us be clear—

[The Environment, May 3rd, 2018]

Mr. Speaker, it is really important to it make clear in the House that greenhouse gas emissions only went down twice under the previous government: one, because the Ontario government closed coal-fired plants, and the Conservatives cannot take credit—

[The Environment, May 3rd, 2018]

Mr. Speaker, I am very pleased that just this week we released a report, and I am happy to provide a copy of the report, that showed clearly that putting a price on pollution worked. It is a cost-effective way of reducing emissions, and we can do it while growing the economy.

Canadians are wondering what the party opposite would do on climate change, because for a decade it did nothing.

[Status of Women, May 3rd, 2018]

Mr. Speaker, it is actually hard to understand whether the member opposite thinks it is a good thing or a bad thing that we look at the gender impacts on all our policies. We did that to carbon pricing, as we do with all the policies.

I want to point out that when the party opposite was in government, it closed 12 out of 16 regional offices of Status of Women Canada. Where was the gender-based analysis of that?

[The Environment, May 1st, 2018]

Mr. Speaker, I do not know how I can make it more clear. Maybe the member opposite could go call the insurance companies. Insurance companies tell me every day about the huge payouts they are having to pay because of the cost of climate change.

Let me also talk about the opportunity, the $23 trillion opportunity of clean growth, as Mark Carney, the Governor of the Bank of England, has called it.

The Conservative Party does not understand that we need to protect our environment and grow our economy. We are going to do both. They will do neither.

[The Environment, May 1st, 2018]

Mr. Speaker, there is a real cost of climate change right now, and Canadians across the country are feeling it. We have people who are feeling the impacts of forest fires, floods, and droughts. The Arctic is literally melting, but they think it is a joke.

We are taking serious action on climate change. We have a plan and we have a target, and we are going to meet it.

[The Environment, May 1st, 2018]

Mr. Speaker, I wish that the party opposite would understand the cost of climate change right now.

One of the hardest calls I ever had to make was to a rancher in Alberta, whose whole ranch burned down because of forest fires. There are people who are suffering from floods across the country. The Arctic is literally thawing, and they think it is a joke.

[The Environment, May 1st, 2018]

Mr. Speaker, I have a question. What is your climate plan? What is your climate plan? What is your climate plan? What is your climate plan?

[The Environment, May 1st, 2018]

Mr. Speaker, I would be happy after question period to hand over our analysis that shows that carbon pricing works and it can be done while growing the economy.

Eighty percent of Canadians live in a province—Ontario, British Columbia, Alberta, and Quebec—where there is a price on pollution. Guess what? Their economies were the fastest growing in the country.

Once again, I ask the member opposite, “What are you going to do?” Under 10 years of the Harper government, you did nothing—