The Budget  Mr. Speaker, as the environment critic I was looking forward to working with all the parties and to implementing a new green economy. Regrettably, the budget does not allow us to do that. We will simply be tinkering at the edges. One of the tools I mentioned was that in parallel

The Budget  Mr. Speaker, I too am deeply disturbed at the lack of respect shown for women in this House. I too have received a lot of calls from constituents who are deeply concerned about this matter. We thought that we had made progress in Canada, that we were an advanced nation and that w

The Budget  Mr. Speaker, I do not believe it is necessary for me to price the costs of addressing climate change. That has been done very thoroughly by the experts in the federal environment department. I have the big tomes that have been held back and finally released to the public. They

The Budget  Mr. Speaker, I welcome this opportunity to speak to the budget. Similar to other members who have expressed such in the House, I also reached out to my constituents. I have also been receiving a lot of phone calls and emails from other people across the country who are concerned

The Budget  Mr. Speaker, this February a number of students, including Christina Dymond, one of my constituents from the University of Alberta, will join an expedition to the Antarctic. The Students on Ice program takes students to the Arctic and Antarctic and offers a comprehensive field co

The Budget  Mr. Speaker, the member for Cape Breton—Canso spoke of the need for key investments. Perhaps the member could inform the House what market research his party and the Conservative government would have relied upon to strike support for the renewable energy sector and the National

The Budget  Madam Speaker, I have a question for the member for Kitchener—Waterloo, who I enjoyed the Scottish dinner with the other evening. I am pleased to hear that the member is excited about the financing of innovators and alternative energy. I would appreciate the member responding to

Economic and Fiscal Statement  Mr. Speaker, the question I would like to put for the member for Selkirk—Interlake is on his presentation, which gives me pause to be very concerned about his interpretation and definition of the democratic process. He is castigating the members on the other side of the House for

Status of Women  Mr. Speaker, the current finance minister is taking cheap shots at Canadian women's hard-earned rights. For decades Canadian women fought for equal pay; decades. Women are systematically denied equal pay for work of equal value, and now the Conservative economic statement vali

Status of Women  Mr. Speaker, no matter what the minister tries to suggest, Canadian women are facing a serious rollback of rights by the Conservative government. The government's attack on women's equality will not be forgotten just because it is scrambling to sweep a politically crass economic

Ecojustice  Mr. Speaker, it gives me great pleasure to the inform the House that the pre-eminent Canadian environmental legal organization, Ecojustice, has just this past month opened an office in my riding of Edmonton—Strathcona. Founded in 1990, Ecojustice was created in response to a gro

Resumption of Debate on Address in Reply  Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the comments and encouragement by the member from the Northwest Territories. I will repeat that we have had a very co-operative, wonderful working relationship for more than 30 years in pursuing common pursuits for the communities that cross the borders

Resumption of Debate on Address in Reply  Mr. Speaker, it gives me great pleasure to respond to the question put to me by the member opposite and I thank him for his greetings from Alberta. Contrary to what the member asserts, the New Democratic Party is fully in favour of giving full support to the alternative economy.

Resumption of Debate on Address in Reply  Mr. Speaker, it is with great pleasure that I will be sharing my allotted time today with the member for Sault Ste. Marie. Mr. Speaker, I wish to begin by congratulating you on your reappointment, and the Speaker on his re-election to the chair. I am confident that all members s

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, as an Albertan, I was horrified to learn yesterday of the government's plans to destroy the very foundation of federal environmental protection. At the same time it is fast-tracking the extraction of fossil fuels, including in our fragile Arctic. The government has