Public Complaints and Review Commission Act  Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague, who raises a very good point. As I was saying, this is our third attempt. Let us hope this is the one. In the past, the government tried to legislate on this issue, but the bill always died on the Order Paper because it was never given priori

Public Complaints and Review Commission Act  Mr. Speaker, there were a few minutes left in my speech on November 3 just before the Deputy Prime Minister took the floor to present her economic update. Members will remember that, at the time, the House of Commons was all abuzz and everyone was eager to hear the Deputy Prime

Starred Questions  With regard to the bilateral negotiations between Canada and the United States to modernize the Safe Third Country Agreement and Canada’s efforts with the United States to crack down on the human smuggling network that uses Roxham Road: (a) how many letters, emails or other items

Climate Change  Mr. Speaker, coming out of COP27, the Minister of Environment said that he was disappointed that we were unable to make more progress, but it is his fault if we have not. He fought to prevent countries from adding the need to reduce the use of fossil fuels to the final declarat

Natural Resources  Mr. Speaker, at the same time that the Minister of the Environment was censoring the planet at COP27, Canada was continuing its efforts to turn Newfoundland into an oil Klondike. Five oil companies have been allowed to explore around Bay du Nord for new deposits. The Liberals ha

Fall Economic Statement Implementation Act, 2022  Madam Speaker, the House adopted a motion last week to allow sitting hours to be extended until midnight. To justify this abuse of process, the government said that it was to limit the use of time allocation motions. We can see today that it was all a sham. Can the minister conf

Fall Economic Statement Implementation Act, 2022  Madam Speaker, I think it is reasonable for us to get as much time as we need to debate this bill. That is called parliamentary democracy. The opposition parties, or at least the Conservatives and the Bloc Québécois, noticed a few things missing from the economic update, such as

Climate Change  Mr. Speaker, it is embarrassing for Quebeckers to be represented by Canada at COP27. On Monday, the climate change performance index ranked 60 countries based on their greenhouse gas emissions, climate policy and energy use. Do members know where Canada ranked out of 60 countri

Natural Resources  Mr. Speaker, who should we listen to, the feel-good Liberals or international experts who ranked Canada 58 out of 60? The feel-good Liberals approved Bay du Nord and, as we speak, they are authorizing five oil companies to excavate the seabed off Newfoundland to find even more

Fall Economic Statement Implementation Act, 2022  Madam Speaker, I heard my government colleague say that she is proud of this economic update. I was not proud when I presented this update to my constituents. There are seasonal workers in my riding, and on September 24, the government announced that, in the Lower St. Lawrence a

Fall Economic Statement Implementation Act, 2022  Mr. Speaker, I thank my hon. colleague for his speech, in which he talked about the economic consequences of the climate crisis. I wonder if he could comment on the fact that even today, in 2022, the government continues to give billions of dollars in subsidies to oil and gas com

Natural Resources  Mr. Speaker, with COP27 in full swing, the big winners have been revealed. Unfortunately, I am talking about the winners of the bidding process for oil exploration licences in Newfoundland's offshore. The winners are ExxonMobil, BP, Equinor and the Qatar state-owned company, QP

Natural Resources  Mr. Speaker, at the same time, Canada once again extended an invitation to COP15 on biodiversity being held in Montreal. The event is three weeks away and not one head of state has confirmed their attendance. Obviously, all countries are quite aware that Canada is approving oi

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister is not part of Canada's delegation attending COP27 on climate change in Egypt. Who is there instead? Believe it or not, representatives of the oil sands industry. I am not making this up. Canada sent six oil companies, one pipeline manufacturer and

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, Canada's strategy at COP27 is exactly the same as Saudi Arabia's. They both showed up saying that they will continue to increase oil production. They both invited the oil industry to discuss how their oil is “greener than green” thanks to carbon capture and storage.