Employment Insurance  Mr. Speaker, this government has clearly stated its commitment to clean up federal contaminated sites and to encourage the private sector to clean up brownfield sites. This government's approach to contaminated sites and brownfields is founded on the polluter pays principle

Kyoto Protocol   will not make commuters pay. We will make polluters pay.

The Environment   to make investments in their own technology. That is what we would like to see. We would like to see industry and the polluters pay. That is the principle by which we will govern in terms of our green plan.

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  We're not looking at a carbon tax. I know one of the leaders in the Liberal Party has proposed that. That doesn't mean we don't embrace the idea of “polluter pays”. We think we can achieve that through compliance mechanisms. I think that is important. That's certainly something

The Environment   will continue to pursue the principle of polluter-pay.

Kyoto Protocol Implementation Act   that the polluter pays for damaging our health and our environment. Without enforcement, Bill C-288 is not much of a bill. It might as well have been a motion, or how about a preamble to a real bill on climate change. Bill C-288 is therefore useless. I think the Liberals know a lot about being

The Environment   that is a responsible environmental policy. We think the basis of regulation of greenhouse gases and air pollution should be the polluter pay principle, and this will be the basis of the plans we bring forward.

Environment committee  I believe in a “polluter pays” approach. I don't believe we should ask hard-working, middle-class taxpayers to subsidize big business to reduce their pollution. That's why we're going to require industry to make billions of dollars in investments to reduce greenhouse gases

Environment committee   to a “polluter pays” principle, I think it is important. I think the investments are going to have to be made in every single industry, whether it's pulp and paper, oil and gas, chemicals, or smelting. All are important. Everyone has to play their part.

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, our targets are applicable on a national scale. These targets apply to every province and the targets are greater for economies experiencing greater growth. We are also committed to respecting the polluter pay principle. This principle is part of our plan.

The Environment   on industry and we are going to take a very different approach than the talk of the Liberal Party. We believe in the fundamental principle that the polluter pays, something that the member's own leader abandoned when he was the minister of the environment.

Transport committee   barrels, grocery carts.... It's unbelievable the number of things people leave. We have hundreds of volunteers who do that, and it's a very good effort. But no matter what dent we make, we find that the next year it's back. I believe in the “polluter pays” principle. Has

Environment committee  I will ask two quick questions, and then I'll close off here. On the issue of the polluter paying, which you said, Mr. Godfrey.... I don't understand in effect what you're doing. I guess you're lumping it all together in a kind of national sense, in effect going back

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, polluter pays is one of the principles of our plan. The good news is this. While I do not have the confidence of the member from Skeena—Bulkley Valley and the NDP, I do have the full confidence, the full support, the full enthusiasm of the Liberal Party of Canada.

The Environment  . Our government is a firm believer in the polluter-pay principle and that is why we are establishing a Canadian carbon exchange. The time for Liberal rhetoric and promises has passed. Conservative members are taking action now to ensure the sustainable development of Quebec within