Natural Resources  Mr. Speaker, Greenpeace told CBC that a missing link in the federal climate plan is a cap on emissions from the oil and gas sector. The minister must be glad that there is no cap because, with Trans Mountain, he would have smacked his head, and hard. This serves to remind us tha

Natural Resources  Mr. Speaker, we have learned that greenhouse gas emissions increased between 2021 and 2022. They are going up when they should be going down. The worst part is that they are going to keep going up because Ottawa just opened Trans Mountain yesterday. The Minister of Environment h

Canada—Newfoundland and Labrador Atlantic Accord Implementation Act  Mr. Speaker, I do not know how many litres of fuel it takes to get to Newfoundland and Labrador. The committee did not make it there. If the aim was to have consultations, perhaps they should have made it there. However, I can say that I have to drive for six hours every time I

Canada—Newfoundland and Labrador Atlantic Accord Implementation Act  Mr. Speaker, what I am saying is that the federal government is using this bill as environmental window dressing. The bill has nothing to do with the energy transition. The federal government could have been honest in its presentation of the bill, clearly indicating that what it

Canada—Newfoundland and Labrador Atlantic Accord Implementation Act  Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague from Provencher for his question. It is true that we do not always agree, especially when it comes to straws and gas guzzlers. I do not agree with him on these matters. I do not agree with him that Canada’s oil and gas sector is one

Canada—Newfoundland and Labrador Atlantic Accord Implementation Act  Mr. Speaker, I completely agree with my colleague. If we look at the federal government's strategies in the past three or four years, clean energy has never been at the centre of those strategies. In the latest budget, we saw tax credits pop up for clean electricity. Those will

Canada—Newfoundland and Labrador Atlantic Accord Implementation Act  Mr. Speaker, I think that what is irresponsible in the fight against climate change is to continue our out-of-control support for the oil and gas sector. That is irresponsible. I began by saying that one of the stumbling blocks was to determine whether offshore areas fell under f

Canada—Newfoundland and Labrador Atlantic Accord Implementation Act  Mr. Speaker, I hope that I can speak with the same passion as my colleague, but I have to admit that I am not an oil and gas enthusiast, far from it. I want to begin by saying that Bill C-49 was introduced to us as a bill that seeks to promote renewable energy, but such is not t

The Budget  Mr. Speaker, I would simply point out to my colleague from Winnipeg North that we do not need the federal government to take care of children in schools. Rather, it is the federal government that needs Quebec. It copied the Quebec government's child care program. It is trying to

The Budget  Mr. Speaker, the first thing we can do is try to diversify our economy, certainly. Today, there are massive investments of public money in something that is doomed to fail, namely carbon capture and storage strategies and efforts to try to make oil cleaner in order to increase p

The Budget  Mr. Speaker, that compensation is essential. The Government of Quebec is asking for $2.9 billion. This does not appear in the budget. In my introduction, I talked about the fiscal imbalance. Well, that is what is going to happen. The federal government generates and creates expe

The Budget  Mr. Speaker, if we had to define this budget, if we had to characterize it, I think it could be best described as a budget of interference. However, before getting into that, I would like to return to what happened before the budget. It was unheard of. Like me, my colleagues ar

Canadian Sustainable Jobs Act  Madam Speaker, I am tempted to give my colleague the same answer she gave me earlier when she said that politicians have to be honest. Every politician has to be honest. The future of the world does not lie in fossil fuels. The country that is currently investing the most to get

Canadian Sustainable Jobs Act  Madam Speaker, as for reconsidering our position, the answer is definitely no. As I told my colleague, we had numerous meetings with people from the environmental and labour communities. People from the environmental community have mixed feelings about the bill. For them, the fac

Canadian Sustainable Jobs Act  Madam Speaker, it has indeed become a bit like smoke and mirrors. I want to add to what my colleague said. As parliamentarians, we have to realize that some things are not permitted. We can have different ideas and different points of view, but resorting to strategies to intimid