Safeguarding Canada's Seas and Skies Act  , the spirit of the Marine Liabilities Act and the spirit of what we are doing in terms of liability and compensation is to ensure and enshrine the principle that the polluter pays. We want to ensure that we protect the waters as well as the people who utilize the waters and come up

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, industry is the first responder to its own oil spills under the polluter pay principle. The Coast Guard, of course, is the lead agency for ensuring appropriate response to ship-source spills in Canadian waters. On March 18, 2013, the government announced the world

The Environment   know the government does as well. The concept of polluter pay is one that is very important and it is one about which I know the Prime Minister has spoken in the House, where he says our government recognizes the importance because it ties into the overall concept

BUSINESS OF SUPPLY   include the polluter-pay principle. While the opposition over there huffs and puffs and belches black smoke about our energy industry, scaremongers both at home and in Washington and strives to halt development, the Conservatives know that the industry can and is co-existing very

BUSINESS OF SUPPLY   to ensure we have in place a world-class marine safety system, including a tanker safety expert panel to review Canada's spill response requirements, a review of the liability and compensation regime to ensure the polluter pays for all the costs of cleanup, scientific research on marine

The Environment  . Canada's liability regime is founded on the polluter pays principle. As noted in the recent report by the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development, the responsibility rests with operators to immediately take all reasonable measures to clean up a spill and prevent

The Environment   regulators will not allow any drilling to start until they are convinced that the environment and the safety of workers will be protected. In the event of a spill, the polluter pay principle is the foundation of our liability regime.

Natural Resources committee   the response is immediate and comprehensive and is based on polluter pay.

Fisheries committee   and fearmongering in the discussion on how oil spills are managed in Canada, so I think that we need to be aware of what is happening. It's my understanding that the polluter pay principle is the standard, so could somebody confirm whether or not I'm correct on that? And I see in the sixth line

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, in Canada the foundation for our liability regime is the polluter pay principle. I should point out as I did the other day that the Commissioner of the Environment said in terms of nuclear liability limits that: —Canada has actually acknowledged that is too low

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, I would remind my colleague opposite of what the Prime Minister said yesterday, that we understand that the fundamental principle of our environmental review system and our environment regime is the polluter pay principle. We are committed to reviewing

Natural Resources committee   in question period the Prime Minister also said that we're committed to the polluter pay principle. I'm just wondering if you have any suggestions on how that might be achieved, or how we might strengthen that, beyond just raising the liability limits. Do you have any other suggestions

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, as I have said earlier, our government is committed to periodically assessing the financial liability assessment to ensure that Canada's polluter pay system remains the strongest in the world. With regard to our responsible resource development plan, we have

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, the polluter pay principle is at the heart of this government's environmental philosophy. We favour a policy of responsible resource development. As we have said before, responsible means enhanced environmental protection. The government has already announced

Environment committee  I want to place this as a point of order, Mr. Chair. Once again we are, in my view, looking at a substantive amendment. As for the question of polluter pays, I'm tempted to use the expression “red herring”, but I don't want to try to surmise Monsieur Bigras' motives. I