House debate  Madam Speaker, I put a question on March 5 to the government. The Minister of the Environment popped up immediately to respond to it. I would like to repeat my question, which is to the Government of Canada. Why do I say that? It is the entirety of the Government of Canada that

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank the hon. member for his comments. One thing that troubles me, though, is he speaks broadly about investing in democracy. It is really a stretch of the imagination to suggest that the millions upon millions of dollars that the government wasted a

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, the government has replaced its climate scientists by appointing deniers to its scientific councils, has severely cut funds to climate research, and now we learn it is muzzling its own climate scientists. Are these regressive moves because the government does not wa

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the member's comments, but it occurs to me that there are two different issues. There is the waste of money by the Government of Canada on advertising its programs, with its logo all over them, when those millions of dollars could actually be spent on r

Resumption of debate on Address in Reply  Mr. Speaker, the Leader of the Opposition indeed describes his party as the government in waiting and yet, when Liberal members are in government, we wait for action on climate and the environment. The Leader of the Opposition decries the government for its failure to address cl

THE BUDGET  Madam Speaker, more critical is that we in this party share the concern that the party of the questioner is considering supporting in the budget which gives further billions in tax cuts to corporations rather than taking a portion of that money and assigning it to new investments

THE BUDGET  Madam Speaker, I know the hon. member shares my concerns about the directions in the budget for the review of major energy projects. We are looking forward to the potential for major developments, not only along the Mackenzie but in the Arctic. It is critical that we have a gove

THE BUDGET  Madam Speaker, I am pleased to advise that I will be sharing my time today with my hon. colleague, the member for Nickel Belt. Before commenting on the substance of the budget, I feel obliged to share the concerns of my constituents on the budget process. The government has laud

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, last year the government used its budget to scrap environmental reviews of infrastructure projects under the Navigable Waters Protection Act. This year, the budget hands over even more of its environmental duties to industry-friendly agencies. The National Energy Boa

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, the throne speech reads: Nowhere is a commitment to principled policy, backed by action, needed more than in addressing climate change. The government pledged to green the economy, lead in clean electricity, finance climate efforts and reduce emissions in paralle

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, a peer-reviewed report on the oil sands emissions just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that oil sands operations are emitting today, and have been emitting for decades, levels of contaminants, putting the Athabasca watershed and

Committees of the House  Mr. Speaker, I thank the hon. member for her very important remarks. Every day we come to work, we pass these workers on the street, today in the middle of a blizzard. I find it absolutely reprehensible. These hard workers work in institutions that our family or friends go to vis

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, this past year, the Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development was privileged to hear testimony from many leading Canadian scientists on the impact of oil sands operations on water resources. Federal officials and industry witnesses defended thei

Provincial Choice Tax Framework Act  Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank the hon. member for her very thoughtful presentation, particularly on behalf of the first nations of Canada. I would like to bring to the attention of the House, if members did not pay attention to the latest Auditor General's report, a series

Provincial Choice Tax Framework Act  Mr. Speaker, I, too, wish to congratulate the new member for New Westminster—Coquitlam. I congratulate him on his inaugural speech, which was very well put. I know the rest of the House would join me in supporting him as he swims through the many hurdles that we face in trying to