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

Strengthening the Port System and Railway Safety in Canada Act  Madam Speaker, Quebeckers experienced the tragedy first-hand. It has been studied. We know that the regulations and inspections were insufficient. We also know that in the business model I mentioned in my speech, precision scheduled railroading, or PSR, the company leaders' comp

Strengthening the Port System and Railway Safety in Canada Act  Madam Speaker, I will start by being positive. There have been some improvements, such as reducing train speeds, enhancing track inspection requirements, and making tank cars sturdier. However, according to Ian Naish, a former director at the Transportation Safety Board of Canada

Strengthening the Port System and Railway Safety in Canada Act  Madam Speaker, I too know people from Mégantic. They are inspecting the rail lines themselves. Some might say that they do not have the right to do so, but the work will not get done otherwise, and they do not want to go through that again. That is obvious. No one wants to go thr

Strengthening the Port System and Railway Safety in Canada Act  Madam Speaker, I am not sure I understand what downloading of responsibility my colleague is talking about. As I understand the bill before us, elected officials have the power to impose requirements on companies. However, if my colleague's question is about giving companies gre

Strengthening the Port System and Railway Safety in Canada Act  Mr. Speaker, Bill C‑33 comes at the end of a series of initiatives taken by the Canadian government over the past six years. Beyond the various committees that could have addressed the matter in previous Parliaments, let us consider the following initiatives. In 2018, there was