Environment committee   measures, those very things that were requested by Mr. Cullen and that I guess others from the NGO communities have suggested as well. Regarding the polluter-pay principle, our plan recognizes that all Canadians, not just businesses but individuals, have to fight against climate change

Environment committee   in the polluter-pay principle. Our plan recognizes that all Canadians have to fight climate change and that industry has to do its part; and it will, as things stand. Our regulations will apply to all big industry, as we said, the oil sands and any of the other oil projects as well, in terms

Environment committee   Turning the Corner plan presents a responsible path forward. It'll enable Canada to address climate change and air pollution without putting Canada's quality of life and economy at risk. It is equitable across regions and economic sectors. It respects the polluter-pay principle

Environment committee  Thank you very much, Chair. I am raising a real concern I have on the carbon tax being proposed by the Liberals that Francis was asking about. This government firmly believes in the polluter-pay principle. We've heard that from the Prime Minister and the minister. Our plan

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

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

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

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

Bill C-16 Environmental Enforcement Act

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

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

Canadian Environmental Bill of Rights   to the protection of the environment. The bill stipulates that five emerging principles of environmental law would guide its interpretation: the precautionary principle, the polluter pays principle, the principle of sustainable development, the principle of intergenerational equity

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

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