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Business of Supply Mr. Speaker, I rise to support the motion by the hon. member for Westmount—Ville-Marie regarding the slashing of federal support to scientific research in Canada. The government fails to understand the importance of scientific research to the Canadian economy, to our competitive
March 9th, 2009House debate
Linda DuncanNDP
Climate Change Accountability Act Madam Speaker, I am pleased to rise in the House today in support of Bill C-311 introduced by my hon. colleague. I wish to thank the hon. member who spoke before me for his very cogent and knowledgeable comments. Obviously, he has been working on the file a long time, and we appr
March 4th, 2009House debate
Linda DuncanNDP
Budget Implementation Act, 2009 Mr. Speaker, indeed the member is receiving inquiries from concerned citizens in Nova Scotia. I have been receiving questions and hearing concerns from people right across Canada. People are deeply concerned about this. People in Canada have given of their time and effort volunt
March 2nd, 2009House debate
Linda DuncanNDP
Budget Implementation Act, 2009 Mr. Speaker, indeed this is not a minor provision in the budget bill. It goes to the very heart of what this Parliament believes in. We believe that the environment and the economy are inextricably linked and that we need to be making sure that whether they are fiscal measures or
March 2nd, 2009House debate
Linda DuncanNDP
Budget Implementation Act, 2009 Mr. Speaker, I did not run in an election and get elected by my constituents simply because I want to get elected. I told the people of Edmonton--Strathcona that I was running because I was going to bring the federal government back to Alberta. I am sick and tired of members stan
March 2nd, 2009House debate
Linda DuncanNDP
Budget Implementation Act, 2009 Mr. Speaker, in essence, what we have before us in the amendment to which the hon. member for Outremont spoke, and I seconded, is a matter of both substance and process. It is a matter of process in that the members of this House either support a Bush-type way of making law in
March 2nd, 2009House debate
Linda DuncanNDP
Budget Implementation Act, 2009 Mr. Speaker, the member has said that his top concern in how we will vote on the budget is that many people are out of work and that many people in Canada have the right to have well-paid work. He also admits that he does not know much about environmental assessment. Let me take
March 2nd, 2009House debate
Linda DuncanNDP
Budget Implementation Act, 2009 Madam Speaker, the hon. member remonstrates about the lack of attention in the Conservative budget to support for renewable energy development and implementation and to energy retrofits rather than simply building decks. Around the world the International Energy Agency, the Europ
March 2nd, 2009House debate
Linda DuncanNDP
The Environment Mr. Speaker, the Minister of the Environment is meeting today with the U.S. envoy for climate change, Todd Stern. While Stern was negotiating the Kyoto protocol, the Prime Minister was calling climate change a socialist plot. We had 13 long years of no action by the Liberals and
March 2nd, 2009House debate
Linda DuncanNDP
The Environment Mr. Speaker, in defence of their tar sands policies following the damning National Geographic exposé, the Conservatives now suggest that all is well because they are working with the U.S. to study new technologies to capture and sequester carbon underground, yet little solid acti
March 2nd, 2009House debate
Linda DuncanNDP
Business of Supply Mr. Speaker, I welcome the comments from the hon. member across the way. It is good to hear that there might be new funding coming to the first nations of Canada, particularly in the area of safe drinking water. However, I would ask the member if he could perhaps clarify. It is
February 26th, 2009House debate
Linda DuncanNDP
Business of Supply Mr. Speaker, I appreciate where the hon. member is coming from. My grandfather emigrated from his province at the turn of the century to Canada. I support the opinions the member has put forward but I would put forward that it is equally important that the larger municipalities
February 26th, 2009House debate
Linda DuncanNDP
Business of Supply Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the member from the Northwest Territories for his very cogent comments on the motion, which the NDP supports. What is regrettable, as the member has mentioned, is it was not in the original budget or brought forward by the Liberals as an amendment. W
February 26th, 2009House debate
Linda DuncanNDP
Arctic Waters Pollution Prevention Act Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his excellent, cogent and clear remarks on the bill. It is an important bill and I commend the government for bringing it forward. We need to extend the ambit of our responsibilities over the Arctic and extend those protections. What is unf
February 25th, 2009House debate
Linda DuncanNDP
Petitions Mr. Speaker, I am filing this petition with the House on behalf of more than 370 residents of Edmonton and area. The petitioners are appealing to the House of Commons and the Government of Canada on behalf of Christians of Iraq. They are petitioning the House to protect the liv
February 25th, 2009House debate
Linda DuncanNDP