Climate Change Accountability Act  Maybe 99% of the world's climate scientists have all read their graphs upside down by mistake. Either way, the Government of Canada would be one of the few governments in the world that continued to do nothing, and in this hypothetical scenario, they would happen to be right. In that case, we would still have to deal with our drooping economic productivity and the problems associated with peak oil, while most other countries will have greened their economies.

Sustaining Canada's Economic Recovery Act  Speaker, the hon. member for Timmins—James Bay has raised a lot of interesting and disturbing points about the spending of the current government. I wonder if he would like to comment a little about where Canada is getting the money that we are wasting these days when we have more regressive taxation, huge tax cuts to big oil and big banks, et cetera. I know the member is knowledgeable about this.

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Madam Speaker, I would like to ask the hon. leader of the NDP, building on his comments about big oil, why in this 880-plus page omnibus bill are there no investments in Canada? Why is there no income security for mothers, families and retirees? What about passenger rail, green jobs, green technologies, health care, home care, education, sustainable community-based forestry and especially sustainable energy, instead of tax rates which are half the rate of the United States for big oil and big banks?

Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act  Madam Speaker, I am very pleased to speak to the government's proposed legislation on a free trade deal between Canada and Colombia. Despite what we hear repeatedly from the other side, the NDP is not against trade. We are not against fair trade. We are not against good trade. In fact, we are all for it, but it has to be fair and it has to be sustainable.

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Canada Post has been fighting this battle for the last 10 years or more. Several companies, many of which are surrogates of national post administrations, have been collecting letter mail in Canada and bringing it to their countries where it is processed and remailed abroad, creating jobs there and not here in Canada.

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  -style omnibus budget bills, why can we not have bills that have some vision? Why can we not have bills that invest in Canada, that invest in infrastructure for municipalities, that invest in passenger rail, that invest in health care and home care, that invest in education, that invest in sustainable community-based forestry, that invest particularly in sustainable energy?

Business of Supply  Speaker, given that the current government has given hundreds of million dollars in tax subsidies to the very profitable oil industry and given that we have a 2009 G20 commitment from Canada to end subsidies to the fossil fuels industry, why are those subsidies continuing after we have allegedly made those commitments?

Climate Change Accountability Act  Canada did ratify but with a puzzling disregard for a binding treaty. We continued to increase emissions. The big three of emissions per capita, the United States, Australia and Canada, made only token investments in renewable energy technology.

Environment committee  I guess my comments would be two. The first is that right now the energy sectors, particularly coal, oil, and gas, are highly subsidized so that we're not paying the real costs today, and we might have to move to full cost accounting here. The other thing I truly believe is that the key to economic development from the resource sector in Canada has to do with more value-added in a variety of sectors, lots and lots of sectors.

The Budget  They want mass transit and a rail system across Canada that we can be proud of. Rather than renewed moneys for old technologies and nuclear and oil, they especially want sustainable energy, such as solar, wind and water. Why is the hon. member for Brant not willing to invest in a Canada that we can be proud of?

RESUMPTION OF DEBATE ON ADDRESS IN REPLY  We need to move quickly to secure these jobs at Thunder Bay Fine Papers in Thunder Bay and in resource dependent communities across all of Canada. Once again, allow me to express my pleasure at joining the House and I look forward to working with all parties to show that we can work together to reinvest in the kind of Canada that we all seek and that Canadians citizens want and need from us.

Budget Implementation Act, 2009  He has done a rather eloquent job of describing some of the deficiencies in the budget, and I will build on that. How does he feel about the fact that there is money for subsidizing nuclear and oil, but nothing for renewable energy sources, or passenger rail across Canada to bring it back to its glory days when it is so fuel efficient and needed, especially by poorer Canadians and the disappearing middle-class?