Budget Implementation Act, 2023, No. 1  Madam Speaker, that is a completely dishonest question. This is something that has to be very clearly said in the House of Commons. The member began her question by saying there was some dishonesty in my speech. The only thing that was dishonest in my speech was when I was refer

Budget Implementation Act, 2023, No. 1  Madam Speaker, I have listened to a number of speeches on this year's budget and on Bill C-47, the budget implementation act, at all stages of debate. I have been inspired by some of these speeches. I really enjoyed the one delivered by the hon. member for Abbotsford. He spoke a

Oil and Gas Industry  Mr. Speaker, “broken” is the only word to describe what happens to everything the current government touches. We are learning of yet another $3-billion loan guarantee required to complete the Trans Mountain expansion so the Liberal government can sell it. It would not have had t

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, I have a question for the Bloc member. Many organizations see the deforestation happening across the world as the primary cause of the rise in CO2 in the atmosphere. In 2019, the government said that it was going to plant two billion trees over the next 10 years.

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, my Bloc colleague said that the Conservative Party is the party of populism. Could he define the word “populism”? A large number of Canadians elected the Conservative Party to represent them in the House of Commons. Now, a second carbon tax is about to be forced o

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, I appreciate it every time my colleague gets up to speak in the House of Commons. However, in 2018, an economist from Yale named William Nordhaus came out with his concept of a carbon tax. At that point in time, his concept was for $44 per tonne, far from the $170

Canada Early Learning and Child Care Act  Madam Speaker, that is an excellent question. Indeed, my colleagues on the committee informed me that they put forward these amendments to make sure there were caveats built into the system for the adjustments to labour that we talked about. Colleagues should think about it from

Canada Early Learning and Child Care Act  Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for that question. I have always been impressed with his economic analysis of these matters. He and I share a view on this about how we motivate people in society to get into where the gaps are. There has to be an incentive, which we talked abo

Canada Early Learning and Child Care Act  Madam Speaker, there was a lot packed in there, and I think we addressed that a bit. We talked about my home province of Alberta. It is a growing province. If we think about 1,800 day care spaces in a province that has had a migration influx of 50,000 people over the last year,

Canada Early Learning and Child Care Act  Madam Speaker, I rise today to address the amendments we brought forward on the Canada-wide early learning and child care system. I addressed this many times going door to door in Calgary Centre. When we speak to people who are trying to access day care in Canada, we get an illu

Natural Resources in Alberta  Mr. Speaker, this week, Alberta’s NDP MPs in the House teamed up with their Liberal partners to amend the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, creating a duplication of regulations on tailings ponds and hydraulic fracturing. Going forward, the resource industry will need to go

Strengthening Environmental Protection for a Healthier Canada Act  Mr. Speaker, my hon. colleague is a member I work very well with on the other side of the House. He approaches issues scientifically, and I really appreciate the facts we put on the table together. A regular review of these issues is already in CEPA. There are regular reviews of

Strengthening Environmental Protection for a Healthier Canada Act  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for her question. As I said, a little bit of prevention is better than doing the opposite. I think the committee study paved the way for solutions allowing us to do what is best for all Canadians, all industries and all those affected by the bill

Strengthening Environmental Protection for a Healthier Canada Act  Mr. Speaker, I agree with my colleague that we need to protect the lives of workers across Canada first and foremost. The Canadian Environmental Protection Act should be protecting those work sites as much as it can. I will point out as well that the number one site for reclamat

Strengthening Environmental Protection for a Healthier Canada Act  Mr. Speaker, I rise today to speak to Bill S-5, the bill to amend CEPA, the Canadian Environmental Protection Act. It has been in the current Parliament for far too long. It was amended in the Senate, and then we brought it back to the House of Commons; we amended it further so t