Natural Resources  Mr. Speaker, we agree with the hon. member, and have agreed for some time, that we want the Trans Mountain expansion pipeline to be built, because of the jobs it would create and because of the expansion of our export markets. We believe in the combination of unprecedented invest

Natural Resources  Mr. Speaker, I guess the member opposite was not listening. He was not listening to what the Prime Minister has said and what we say every day. He is not listening to the number of pipeline approvals and why. He is not listening to the importance the natural resource sector conti

Natural Resources  Mr. Speaker, the member covered a lot of ground in 35 seconds. We could talk about the number of dollars the Conservative Party gave to the very same group they are criticizing us for having funded, or we could talk about freedom of speech. Maybe their preference is that we sho

Natural Resources  Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister was in Fort McMurray, and so was the Minister of Infrastructure, and we listened to workers at Fort McMurray. They actually came from every nook and cranny of the country working in the oil sands. They understand better than everybody else how impo

Natural Resources  How about pretty well every day, Mr. Speaker. It is remarkable what the members opposite do not want to hear. They do not want to listen to what we say when we talk about the oceans protection plan. They do not want to listen to us when we talk about working with indigenous comm

Natural Resources  Mr. Speaker, yes. We undertook the most exhaustive consultation on pipelines in Canadian history. What we actually did was add additional layers of consultation, principally with indigenous communities. The reason we did that was because the Federal Court of Appeal, on the north

Natural Resources  Mr. Speaker, I am not denying the facts. The fact is that our government released extensive materials explaining the basis for its decision-making. By the way, it is all available at www.enercan.ca: the ministerial panel report, the summary of Enercan's online consultations, the

Natural Resources  Mr. Speaker, the government consulted with 118 potentially affected indigenous groups. The outcome of these consultations is publicly available. More than $300 million has been committed to indigenous groups by the proponent under mutual benefit agreements, and $64.7 million for

Natural Resources  Mr. Speaker, these consultations were meaningful, and so were the accommodations that are most important to many indigenous peoples. We understand that the relationship with the air, the water, and the land is fundamental and sacred to indigenous people, a lesson that all of us i

Taxation  Mr. Speaker, for decades people have been talking about taking action on climate change, but nothing has been done. We have taken action. We have put forward a world-class oceans protection plan. We have strengthened our environmental assessments, and we have put in place a pri

Taxation  Mr. Speaker, Canadians asked us to plan for a better and safer future. They asked us to take concrete and thoughtful actions to tackle climate change. We listened and we heard Canadians. Our plan would cut pollution equivalent to closing 20 coal plants, while the economy and the

Taxation  Mr. Speaker, the opposition has absolutely no plan. That party had no plan for 10 years because it had absolutely no idea what it means to grow the economy while being respectful of the environment. That party did not respect the environment and it did not grow the economy. On t

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, the safety of Canadians and the protection of the environment are our top priorities with respect to nuclear waste management. As a result of robust participation by Canadians in the review process, the proposed near surface disposal facility at Chalk River labs woul

Natural Resources  Mr. Speaker, we are very confident this pipeline is within federal jurisdiction. We have heard this answer from many courts for a long time, including the Supreme Court of Canada. The movement of natural resources from one province to another is a federal responsibility and this

Natural Resources  Mr. Speaker, I had the pleasure of joining the Prime Minister and the Minister of Infrastructure and Communities in Fort McMurray just two weeks ago to do exactly what the hon. member wants us to do. I can make the same arguments that the hon. member has made about the jobs cre