The Environment  Madam Speaker, as my colleague opposite continues to lobby against 500,000 jobs in Canada's energy sector, we are taking real action to protect the sustainable development of Canada's natural resources. I would like to remind my colleague opposite of the Commissioner of the Envi

The Environment  Madam Speaker, when we talk about homework my colleague opposite should stop lobbying against the Canadian energy sector. What we are about to announce today, and I do not want to steal the minister's thunder, is a credible monitoring system where we will be working in lockstep

House debate  Madam Speaker, let us talk about the green economy, because again I have heard nothing from my colleague on her plan for the green economy. I would ask her to look at the auditor general's report in Ontario that just reported how private sector jobs were lost at the expense of gr

House debate  Madam Speaker, I will begin by correcting my colleague opposite. We refer to the abundant natural resources in our country, to which she is referring, as the oil sands, not the tar sands. I encourage her to talk to the hundreds of thousands of people who are employed in this ener

House debate  Madam Speaker, as we announced last August and as the minister has talked about in the House, we are gradually reducing the current 120 smaller and more costly EI processing sites to 22 larger, more efficient regional processing sites because we want to improve service. This is a

House debate  Madam Speaker, it is a great pleasure to address my colleague opposite for, I think, the first time in the House tonight. My colleague spoke about understanding priorities and I am glad he raised that because I am not quite clear on what the Liberal Party understands as prioritie

House debate  Madam Speaker, it is great to be back in the House in adjournment proceedings talking to my colleague opposite about ozone monitoring. We will continue to monitor the ozone, and because we were so committed to providing that answer again to my colleague opposite, she had the opp

House debate  Madam Speaker, I will re-emphasize the answer that Dr. Dodds gave to our committee. There are no reductions to the monitoring, to the results that Environment Canada needs to provide to meet our obligations to Canadians. Again, this is one more clear example, beyond myself and

The Economy  Mr. Speaker, last week in Switzerland, the Prime Minister highlighted Canada's economic strengths and framed the choices Canada faces as we work to secure long-term prosperity for our citizens. Our top priority is jobs and economic growth. Canada will make the transformations ne

House debate  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague opposite for her question, because it once again gives me the opportunity to talk about Canada's record in monitoring ozone. We certainly have a very strong record in this country of participating in world monitoring activities. We understand th

House debate  Mr. Speaker, I assure my colleague opposite that, as I have said before, we are proud of our record of monitoring ozone here in Canada and our government intends to continue to monitor the ozone.

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, as we have said already today, we are very encouraged by the talks that happened in Durban over the weekend. We have seen an international will to move forward and put together an agreement that sees all major emitters around the table. The Kyoto protocol does not co

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, I am glad my colleague opposite brought up the point about our oil sands monitoring framework, which does provide credible science. When we were in committee earlier this year and she asked the Environment Commissioner about this plan, the Environment Commissioner s

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, just to bring my colleague opposite up to speed on what has happened while she was gone, she has had colleagues ask the international community to ignore Canada. Just as a refresher, her party has voted against budgetary measures to support climate change adaptation

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, what is ambitious is seeing the outcome of the Durban conference, which is an international will to have a binding agreement with all major emitters sitting around the table. This is how we are going to see real reductions in GHG emissions. The key award that my col