Mark Warawa

[Extension of Sitting Hours, June 11th, 2007]

Mr. Speaker, the question that I asked previously in the House was for the Liberal House leader. I asked about the members of the House who went to Berlin, six of us, and heard about solutions for deforestation, for carbon sequestration, and for India, with 100,000 villages that are without electricity. We heard all the different options and solutions.

Unfortunately, the Liberals did not want to hear it. I asked this question and they said no. They did not want to have the environment committee hear about solutions. They just want rhetoric. Really, I am starting to think that they do not even care about the environment any more.

I would like to ask the member about this. The member for Skeena—Bulkley Valley was there. I believe he would like to be able to share with the environment committee the solutions that he heard. He was in a different section. It was about deforestation.

Would the member support that? I surely hope so. I am glad to hear those members are ready to work because I can guarantee that the government is looking forward to work and to working right to the end.

[Extension of Sitting Hours, June 11th, 2007]

Mr. Speaker, I asked the House leader of the Liberal Party if he would support an opportunity for members who went to Berlin to the pre-G8+5 meeting called GLOBE International, where a position paper was established on solutions to cleaning up the environment. The Bloc had a member there, It was very good to be working together in looking at solutions.

My question for the member is about whether he would support and encourage within the House, or actually at the environment committee, a report from all the members who went on that very important trip to look at the solutions in regard to climate change. Would he support directing his representative and those who went, and there are two members from the Bloc on the environment committee, on reporting to the committee how important this is to the environment and about the solutions that were learned about and shared there?

Canada did a great job in Berlin. We were well received, but we need to continue to work here in Parliament on finding solutions to clean up the environmental mess left by the previous government.

[Extension of Sitting Hours, June 11th, 2007]

Mr. Speaker, I look forward to asking a question of the opposition House leader. He has spoken of some of the games that have been played in this House. I have been quite disappointed with some of the games that Liberal members have been playing. Maybe I could get assurance from him that the Liberals will start working hard at the environment committee.

There have been many that went to the GLOBE International Conference just prior to the G-8 plus 5. There were two Conservative members, two Liberal members, a Bloc member and an NDP member, the six of us that attended. In Berlin we heard good solutions from numerous countries in addressing greenhouse gas emissions and climate change.

I have repeatedly asked in committee for an opportunity for each of the members in the spirit of accountability to provide a report to the environment committee. Does that member support having a report from all members on what they experienced at that GLOBE Conference?

[The Environment, June 6th, 2007]

Mr. Speaker, I was with that member in Berlin just a couple of days ago. We arrived back yesterday. He knows well that Canada now has a reputation, a reputation that was tarnished by the former environment ministers.

This is what the media said about the Liberal leader:

...the Leader of the Opposition's “record as environment minister was abysmally bad, earning him a reputation as the Dr. Doolittle of climate change”.

This is what was said about our government:

Canada's strategy in the war on climate change is...a useful and workable policy that might, if it were adopted by other nations, help to control global warming more effectively....

The G-8 needs to listen to the Prime Minister.

[The Environment, June 6th, 2007]

Mr. Speaker, I want to assure the member that Canada is committed to a major reduction, a 20% absolute reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020.

We are one of the leaders in the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and we will also reduce pollution by 50% over the next eight years. That is massive. We are getting it done.

[National Parks, June 1st, 2007]

Mr. Speaker, we have worked with the member and a number of my colleagues in this House regarding the Nahanni. It is a beautiful part of Canada. We look forward to continuing to work on the Nahanni with the other members.

[The Environment, June 1st, 2007]

Mr. Speaker, a domestic carbon market is very much part of our plan. Yes, we will be going to Berlin to the G8+5, the global forum, to discuss with our international partners the carbon market.

However, Canada now has a framework plan that includes a domestic carbon market. The answer is yes, oui.

I also want to wish the member a happy birthday.

[The Environment, June 1st, 2007]

Mr. Speaker, we announced our commitment to a domestic carbon market and a regulatory framework. The detailed regulations are currently being worked out with the industry.

I am wondering what the member does not understand about yes.

[The Environment, June 1st, 2007]

Mr. Speaker, the facts are that the deputy leader of the Liberal Party said “we didn't get it done”. The member for York Centre said “why didn't we get it done?” The leader said “I'll be part of Kyoto but I say to the world I don't think I'll make it”.

That defeatist attitude is what caused the environmental mess. We are not defeatists. We are getting it done. We will reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

[The Environment, June 1st, 2007]

Mr. Speaker, let us look at the facts.