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

Financial System Review Act  Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to hear my colleague talk about the bill because it recognizes the fact that Canada does have one of the soundest banking systems in the world. This has been recognized by the World Economic Forum for four years in a row. What we often hear from our co

Financial System Review Act  Madam Speaker, my colleague opposite started his speech by quoting a socialist, which I thought was very telling. The policy of the party opposite would see us contract our economic growth. Those members want to raise taxes on job-creating companies and raise taxes for families.

House debate  Mr. Speaker, my colleague opposite made a comment about the government's abdication of leadership on climate change. As a young Canadian who sits here now as a government member, I am shocked that my colleague would list weather events and talk about all of these things when her

House debate  Mr. Speaker, while my colleague has the message of doom, I have one of hope, and that is the fact that our government is moving forward with a comprehensive, robust plan to address greenhouse gas emissions in this country, including a sector-by-sector regulatory approach and taki

House debate  Mr. Speaker, when answering the question put by the member in the House originally, I think it is important to note her party's track record with regard to climate change. I appreciate her background and her interest in the area. Because of that, I want to remind the member of th

House debate  Mr. Speaker, I encourage my colleague opposite to put into her talking points the fact that her party did not support this year's budgetary measures to address climate change and climate change adaptation. In fact, we had almost $870 million over two years for Canada's clean air

House debate  Mr. Speaker, my colleague spoke about a mystery. I will try to clear up the mystery. I will refer to the environment committee testimony which happened before we broke in late December. We discussed the ozone monitoring program. The minister and I stood in the House numerous ti

House debate  Mr. Speaker, that leads me to wonder why my colleague opposite continues to vote against budgetary measures which support research and development. We are looking at our research and development system. We are asking how we can be more competitive internationally. However, that i

Preventing Persons from Concealing Their Identity During Riots and Unlawful Assemblies Act  Madam Speaker, I am pleased to speak in support of private member's Bill C-309 introduced in the House of Commons on October 3. In my remarks today, I will explain why Bill C-309, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (concealment of identity), is consistent with our government's co

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, I would like to remind my colleague opposite that shale gas development as well as natural resource development are primarily issues of provincial concern and provincial jurisdiction. I would also like to encourage her to take a look at what some of the industry is

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, I am not sure how my colleague opposite and her party can have any credibility when they consistently work against Canadian jobs in our energy sector. With regard to the Kyoto protocol, our government has been very clear in saying that in order to see real reduction

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, I would remind my colleague opposite that his party continually votes against any budgetary measures to assess any part of this country. With regard to environmental assessment processes, our government takes those very seriously. They are rigorous processes and we

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, as the member opposite knows, our country has an excellent environmental regulatory system in which the public can participate in a law-abiding way. However, any groups or individuals who resort to criminality or violence will be prosecuted to the full extent of the

The Environment  Madam Speaker, that is very rich coming from a party whose former leader said that his party did not get the job done on climate change. We are so proud of our team of scientists at Environment Canada and the work that they do. In fact, last year I believe they conducted over 1,