Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Atlantic Accord Implementation Act  Mr. Speaker, the Bloc Québécois often finds that, when either the Conservatives or the government members open their mouths, all we hear are speeches from oil companies. When I think about Bill C‑49, what comes to mind is an image of oil wells with wind turbines on top them. The

Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Atlantic Accord Implementation Act  Mr. Speaker, I am going to start my speech with some compliments and then move on to the criticisms. This bill seeks to amend the 1986 agreement, which was not bad, because, even though the Supreme Court said that the federal government has jurisdiction over offshore issues, the

Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Atlantic Accord Implementation Act  Mr. Speaker, my colleague talked about diseases and cancer in his speech. I would like to talk to him about that. Right now pollution is causing more cancer and more respiratory and cardiovascular illnesses. The increase in pollution is also causing kidney problems. People are ma

Criminal Code  Mr. Speaker, I am going to address the subject of Bill C‑314; that goes without saying. However, I feel especially compelled to condemn the excessive and inappropriate nature of this initiative from the hon. member for Abbotsford. His bill is being tabled in reaction to an import

Climate Change  Mr. Speaker, it is October and it is 30°C. Clearly, there is something unusual about this. More and more experts believe that the 1.5°C increase we wanted to avoid before the end of the century will be exceeded by 2030. However, Canada is an oil-producing country, as the Ministe

Canadian Sustainable Jobs Act  Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for his intervention. We are studying Bill C‑50 today, but I want to go back to when the Harper government tabled its 2013 budget. The important bit in the 2013 budget was the Canada job grant. That was the centrepiece. Quebec was opposed to i

Canadian Sustainable Jobs Act  Madam Speaker, I have just one minute, but it would take me hours to explain everything that is wrong with the government's approach to fighting climate change. The former Liberal environment minister, Mrs. McKenna, said that Canada could not be part of such a bad movie. That is

Canadian Sustainable Jobs Act  Madam Speaker, the Standing Committee on the Environment and Sustainable Development just finished a study proposed by the Conservatives on clean technologies. During this study, witnesses told us that it is primarily SMEs that create jobs in clean technologies. It is not really

Canadian Sustainable Jobs Act  Madam Speaker, as I was saying in my speech, fossil fuel workers should not have to carry all the weight of the energy transition themselves. Yes, we are thinking about the workers. UN Secretary-General Guterres said that the energy transition will not be possible if we do not t

Canadian Sustainable Jobs Act  Madam Speaker, I listened to my colleague's speech this morning and I asked her a question. She spoke about jobs in green technology, clean technology and renewable energy. The principles of a just transition must apply to all of these new jobs, and those principles include susta

Canadian Sustainable Jobs Act  Madam Speaker, the Bloc Québécois supports the energy transition and a fair transition for workers and their families. For a long time, we have been proposing to change Canada's energy trajectory to make it consistent with the country's commitments and to keep the global increas

Canadian Sustainable Jobs Act  Madam Speaker, I want to come back to the subject of the debate, which is Bill C‑50 and not Bill C‑49. First, I want to say that what I just heard made my skin crawl and it proves that the Conservatives are speaking for the private oil sector, which is made up of billionaires. A

Canadian Sustainable Jobs Act  Madam Speaker, I listened carefully to my colleague's speech. The most important part of it was when she spoke about new jobs in new technologies. Does this bill not seek to help retrain workers in polluting industries, declining industries? There was no mention of that. In any

Natural Resources  Mr. Speaker, the UN is not the only one criticizing Canada's oil expansion. So too is former Liberal environment minister Catherine McKenna. Now that she has left politics, she can say what she really thinks. What she told La Presse is that Canada is on track to become the world'

Natural Resources  Mr. Speaker, last week, the Liberal government announced that it wants to double offshore oil production right in a biodiversity protection zone by 2030, even if it is likely to affect threatened species. The Conservatives think this is the greatest thing ever. Go ahead and kill