Environment committee   of implementing sector-by-sector greenhouse gas reductions to meet our Copenhagen 2020 targets, those costs are borne on the basis of polluter pays. The sectors pay. We've done it in a very non-prescriptive manner, unlike some other countries that use the regulatory tool. We've done

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person from committing offences under this Act; (b) to denounce unlawful conduct that damages or creates a risk of damage to the environment; and (c) to reinforce the “polluter pays” principle by ensuring that offenders are held responsible for effective clean-up and environmental

Marine Liability Act   Canada to also ratify two international maritime organization conventions that are based on the polluter pays principle. The benefits to Canada of continuing its long standing multilateral approach to international shipping and the ratification of these two conventions are very

Business of Supply   waters. The regime is built on a partnership between government and industry, with the respective responsibilities of each party set out in the Canada Shipping Act. The key underlying principle of the regime is that polluters pay, that polluters are responsible, as they should

Environment committee   of environmental law, including but not limited to (a) the precautionary principle; I'm trusting that others will speak to paragraph 3(a). Paragraph 3(b) is the polluter pays principle; 3(c) is the principle of sustainable development; 3(d) is the principle of intergenerational equity

Environment committee  ) the polluter pays principle; (c) the principle of sustainable development; (d) the principle of intergenerational equity; and (e) the principle of environmental justice. That's what we have. We have no amendments proposed.

House debate  , operators must contribute to Canada's ship-source oil pollution fund. This can immediately pay compensation for spills, if they do ever happen, for ships of all classes. This fund would actually go after the polluters, so it is a polluter-pay principle. We have double-hull vessels. We

Offshore Drilling  Mr. Speaker, let me say a few things to the leader of the New Democratic Party. There are no permits to drill in the Arctic. Let me refresh the leader of the New Democratic Party of another fact. We have unlimited liability for oil companies with respect to pollution. Polluter

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, this government has two important tenets with respect to its environmental policies: first, we support strong and effective environmental legislation that protects the great country that we know as Canada; and second, this government strongly supports a polluter

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

Transport committee  I strongly believe in the “polluter pays” principle. I don't think taxpayers should have to subsidize industry to clean up its act. I believe that the polluters, those people who are profiting from polluting our environment, should be accepting responsibility for their actions

Transport committee   the consolidated revenue fund. I believe in polluter pays. When I was Minister of the Environment, it was one of the things we tried to do. For example, one of the things we did was eliminate the tax subsidies the previous Liberal government had given to the oil sands. Rather than us giving

Marine Liability Act  Mr. Speaker, currently the details are not exact in my mind as far as how that is going to happen, except that it is going to be a polluter pays principle. Ultimately this means there will be a fund or an insurance regime in place to make sure that the shippers, the captains

Marine Liability Act  . In fact, I have heard overwhelmingly from most Canadians that it is not. I want to get beyond politics. This bill would protect Canadians against oil spills and makes sure that polluters pay. How can anyone in the House say that is a bad thing? It would protect Canadians aboard

Marine Liability Act   lines, making sure that we are on an international footing so we can work together with our colleagues around the world to make sure that polluters pay wherever they are. This is a global situation where shippers are going from one part of the world to the other and dumping